For well over 45 centuries the human race has been squeezing grapes and fermenting the juice into anything between seven and 15 per cent alcohol, and so producing the ecstatic drink that has been as sacred to every pagan religion as it is to Christianity.But then, the British people didn't have such enlightened masters lording over them as now.As a great French historian has pointed out, the vineyards of France are perhaps the single greatest cultural legacy of the Roman empire, and it is now more than two millennia since people in Britain first became aware of the intoxicating powers of wine.
In all that time, no government in history has yet thought the people so moronic that they needed to be told, on the bottle, that wine could go to your head.
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Just listened to him talking on Any Questions on Radio 4, and he said this. I totally agree with him on this point.
ReplyDeleteBoris Johnson has proven amazingly clever on almost every point he's talked about (except when he bashed videogames of course, but that's an easy mistake to make), and I reckon England with him as Prime Minister would be undeniably entertaining.
Wine already has a warning label - it tells you how much alcohol is in it.
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