Pull Out Of Their...

First it was smoking, then it was fatty foods and now the government drops another "study" that the British middle-class is a hotbed of alcohol abuse with the denizens of Hampstead and Surrey regularly downing glasses of Chardy well beyond the sacred "safe" limits.

This assault on the sideboard was so blatant and predictable that even John Mortimer came out and denounced this invasion of privacy as absurd. Given that Mr. Mortimer is a quintessential Claret Socialist, this is not at all surprising.

What is even less surprising is that the Times reports that the "safe" drinking limits that the government has been pounding us over the head with for twenty years were "plucked out of the air."

Plucked out of somewhere that is certain, though I suspect it wasn't the air.