DRUGS: MEPHEDRONE AND THE RUSH TO BAN

More often than not the subject of drugs and rational discussion and debate are mutually exclusive entities as emotion and the search for quick, easy solutions take precedence over all other considerations. A vivid example of this has occurred over the past few weeks. Several deaths in quick succession have been reported in the press […]

WHAT FUTURE FOR PUBLIC SERVICES?

Glasgow City Council is the largest of 32 local authorities in Scotland  with an annual budget of £2.4 billion and the city’s largest employer with a compliment of some 36,000 staff (the second largest employer in the city is the National Health Service; Glasgow’s workforce is largely concentrated in the public sector). Recently buffeted by […]

FAT FOOD

It is not often that one’s rantings and ravings get confirmed. But two weeks ago the Scottish Government launched an “anti-obesity strategy” which in its aims, objectives and potential implications could be a virtual textbook example of what I have called pseudo-benign liberal totalism or PBLT (see posts Liberal-Fascism, Nonsense or the Way We Are […]