Search results for ‘alcohol’

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  • 11 Mar 2010

    New figures show 3.6 million incidents of antisocial behaviour reported to police last year, but senior officers believe the true figure could be double that.

  • 27 Feb 2010

    OK, let’s be clear, all we wanted to do was to go and collect our ISAF (NATO) accreditation.

  • 4 Feb 2010

    Channel 4 News’s foreign correspondent Jonathan Miller investigates claims that an Iranian-British woman is facing charges for a capital offence in Iran.

  • 18 Jan 2010

    The Iraq inquiry blogger looks ahead to the witnesses scheduled to appear in week seven of the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war.

  • 1 Dec 2009

    So, come the small hours this side of the Atlantic, President Obama will address the American nation and confirm his intention to more fully pursue The Bush Doctrine which began in Iraq, through Afghanistan. Bush surged into Baghdad; Obama will surge into Kabul. Meanwhile here Gordon Brown has pre-surged, carefully timing his 500 reinforcements yesterday,…

  • 30 Nov 2009

    A threat to civilisation or a natural cycle in the life of planet earth? Although the scientific consensus is that man-made global warming is with us, there are still prominent deniers in the debate.

  • 24 Nov 2009

    Booming Brazil – a well-kept secret

    I’ve been in Brazil for three days now, but only just woken up to the reality that the humungous city of Sao Paolo is only the beginning of it. This morning I broke out, and we drove more than 400 kilometres west – a distance, well, heading from London to well past Newcastle. Let me…

  • 2 Nov 2009

    Dealing with drugs needs new thinking and new courage

    Alan Johnson’s gift to personkind might be to re-engage Professor David Nutt and join with him in calling a halt to a bankrupt method of handling the drugs disaster

  • 3 Aug 2009

    Running, if you are addicted to endorphins, is only possible here at night, when the sun does not broil your brain and char your skin.

  • 26 Jun 2009

    I dropped my son off at school this morning and all the eight-year-olds were talking about in the playground was the death of the 50-year-old King of Pop. Last night I stayed up late to watch the curtain fall on Michael Jackson with fascination and bewilderment, largely because of the tiny walk-on part I played…

  • 12 Mar 2009

    We have to say no to 'just say no'

    There really must be another way. According to The Economist, 5 per cent of the world’s population abuses drugs. Yet the UN conference in Vienna has offered no new routes to combating this world-trashing menace. The Economist, for the second time in 20 years, calls for wholesale legalisation. In a recession the mere tax take…