What really bothers me about most, but not all, of the Blair-era approaches to drugs is that's they've been proven to fail, time and time again. Exclusively authoritarian approaches to crim… (View Post)

"Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, said: “Too often the government makes grand promises, but then fails to deliver or does the opposite. Drug use is up, serious violence is up, antisocia… (View Post)

This is the sort of thing Putin would do, like one of his strongman videos about catching fish and judo. (View Post)

That's true. Cocaine use, for instance, crossed the class lines from City to council estate long ago, to become endemic. In fact, in the case of that drug, it's arguably also contributed to… (View Post)

Very amusingly, the story about "Priti Patel's crackdown on middle-class drug users with curfews" today includes a picture of Lindsey Hoyle with a dog sitting in the Speakers' cha… (View Post)