Month: December 2017

Hunt vs Hawking. Both are wrong, and things are worse than we thought

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For the first time in weeks I have no work this weekend, so I wanted to catch up with a couple of topics that I had written about previously, and which were finding their way back into the news. For those who follow such things my old pal the Jim Reaper has left Whitehall and … Read more

How close are we to legalising drugs? Are the Tories more liberal on drugs than Labour? Will Boris Johnson be remembered as the man who decriminalised cocaine?

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  I found needles and ampules in my neighbourhood this week.   I live very near a big hospital, which means that it was more likely to be medical rather than heroin, but I rang the Police nonetheless, being a concerned citizen. For those who don’t know Durham runs the most liberal drugs regime in … Read more