BBC NEWS | UK | Teen alcohol crackdown 'success'

BBC NEWS | UK | Teen alcohol crackdown 'success'

The trouble with this "successful" campaign to crackdown on teens drinking alcohol is that it was carried out by agents of the state.

When parents, in large numbers, step back from their role of teaching, instructing, disciplining and, at times, restraining their children, and when they allow the state to take on that role, then we are all in big trouble.

When that happens, the state is no longer even a Big Brother but a Pushy Parent.

This is bad news for parents, for children and for society as a whole, whose freedoms become even more eroded by an all-embracing governmental bureaucracy.

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Increasing the Unit Price of Alcohol

Like most good ideas, the proposal to increase the minimum unit price of alcohol in order to deter young British drinkers has been ridiculed by many.

It's worth noting, however, that the idea is not only supported by Chief Medical Officer Sir Liam Donaldson but by a growing number of medical professionals.

I was interested in note this week that Professor Martin Plant of the University of the West of England came out in favour of the idea, stating that a minimum price of 50 pence per unit would save 3,000 lives per year in the UK.

My prediction is that the idea will gain increasing support over the coming 3-5 years.

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