Four weeks ago, I wrote about the current high-profile focus on alcohol use in Scotland (The Trouble with Alcohol: posted 26th January on Meikle’s Blog). One of the striking aspects of this present ‘campaign’ is, apart from concerns about irresponsible promotions of alcohol and the absurdly low prices of some brands of liquor, which can […]
Over the past two weeks in Meikle’s Blog I have been looking at how ostensibly altruistic, benign liberal values and principles, have become enmeshed with grand totalising solutions and attempts to enforce norms and values, in effect to micro-manage people’s behaviour and interactions with each other, on a scale unprecedented in liberal-democratic societies. This combination […]
(Last week we examined the situation where benign liberal ideals have been allied to sweeping regulation enforced by law reinforced by a set of all-embracing values and principles which attempts to direct how people behave and interact with each other. This has been described as liberal-fascism. This week we look at how this impacts on […]
Recent Meikle’s Blogs looking at regulation (REGULATION AND INSPECTION: ALL FUR COAT AND NO KNICKERS, posted 16th December 2009), reaction to the recent severe weather in Britain (Risky Weather: posted 19th January) and last week’s blog examining the current moral panic regarding alcohol use (The Trouble with Alcohol: posted 26thJanuary), have had two underlying sub-texts. […]