Food and Drink

If people want to eat cake, let them Monday April 26, 2010 Our ability to decide what and how much we want to eat is slowly being eroded, says Karen McTigue, and we are barely aware of it. What’s to be done?

The fat of the land Wednesday January 20, 2010 Is it possible, asks Karen McTigue, for a single January to pass without the media falling prey to the urge to force us into abstinence of some kind or another?

This new puritanism would drive anyone to drink Sunday January 10, 2010 As smokers told you they would, the puritans have now switched their censorious gaze from cigarettes to wine and beer, writes Nick Cohen in The Observer

Bring in 50p minimum price for alcohol, MPs urge Sunday January 3, 2010 Costs of dealing with alcohol abuse “overwhelming the NHS” say experts

Drunk on power: control politicians not the people Wednesday March 18, 2009 Alcohol: measures being introduced in Scotland will affect the moderate majority more than the mindless minority, says Brian Monteith

Alcohol, feminism and freedom Thursday November 6, 2008 The government’s alcohol strategy is meddling, misogynistic and a million miles from the reality of the way we socialise, argues Suzy Dean

How the health lobby is driving me to drink Wednesday October 22, 2008 If you enjoy four or more glasses of beer or wine in an evening you are a binge-drinker. Simon Clark reports.

War on alcohol threatens individual freedom Wednesday August 13, 2008 Suzy Dean urges people to stand up against the gradual criminalisation of an entire generation

Shameless bullying over booze Monday June 16, 2008 Changing our cultural behaviour cannot be done by introducing restriction after restriction, argues Brian Monteith

In defence of Asda's 2p sausage Monday June 9, 2008 Cheap food gives us the choice to spend our money on something more interesting instead, says Justine Brian