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Bleak house 18 Jan 2011 | 09:56 pm
Writing on The Free Society website today, Martin Cullip asks, "With such a history of failure, why is it that we are still surrounded by so many who seem to have nothing else to offer except ever mor...
Return of Fake Charities website 18 Jan 2011 | 02:54 am
Good to see the return of the Fake Charities website and - what's this - you can use this form to submit a charity for inclusion. Hmmm, now, let me think ... See also Devil's Kitchen and don't forget ...
There is power in a union 14 Jan 2011 | 09:14 pm
Further to my post on Monday, here is the cover of the January issue of Club Journal, the monthly newspaper for members of the Working Men's Clubs and Institute Union. The report reads: The Union ha...
Letter of the week! 14 Jan 2011 | 01:54 am
I have been awarded the ultimate accolade - Letter of the Week in The Grocer. Sir, As your Top Products Survey shows, price not packaging is the key factor in determining the brand of cigarette peop...
Pub closures: response from the Department of Health 13 Jan 2011 | 05:48 pm
Last month I wrote to public health minister Anne Milton who seems to believe that there is little or no correlation between smoking bans and pub closures. I don't make a habit of making public letter...
Europe: the bigger picture 13 Jan 2011 | 12:41 am
Further to Peter Thurgood's article about Spain ('Whatever happened to "my Spain"?', published HERE), John Mallon has posted a piece on the Forest Eireann blog: Catering for smokers: how the rest of E...
Smoking bans and the Spanish inquisition 11 Jan 2011 | 02:55 pm
Do bans make people smoke less? asked the Irish Times on Saturday. Rare for an Irish newspaper to discuss the smoking ban and rarer still to see comments from opponents of the ban in any Irish publica...
CIU joins Save Our Pubs & Clubs campaign 11 Jan 2011 | 03:50 am
Further to rumours and reports, I am delighted to confirm that the Working Men's Clubs & Institute Union (CIU) has agreed to join the Save Our Pubs & Clubs campaign. Together with Forest, the CIU wil...
Postscript to passive smoking and the price of propaganda 10 Jan 2011 | 09:14 pm
A couple of months ago I published a poignant email from June, a 57-year-old mother of two who had devoted many years to bringing up her two children. June has smoked since her teens but now her daugh...
