BRITAIN’S NANNY STATE GETS MORE NANNYISH:

Middle-class wine drinkers will be the focus of government plans to make drunkenness as socially unacceptable as smoking, The Times has learnt.

Under the plans published today, a fresh audit is to be conducted by the Government into the overall costs of alcohol abuse to society and the National Health Service.

A return to the era of tar and feathers is probably the only way to stop this sort of thing. It’s warranted, I think.