Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.
More prohibition is really the answer. Really! Honestly!
Oh yes - more prohibition is really the answer:
The simple truth is that the conditions of the smoking ban are not too prohibitive, but that they are nowhere near prohibitive enough. Instead of producing the dream of a land free of the scourge of secondhand smoke, it's now virtually impossible to enter many pubs and clubs without first pushing your way through an unhealthy congregation of smokers converging around the doorway.
Fuckwit! It was always likely to be the case that some bansturbators would press on for a complete ban on smoking but if you ask me, Mr Hallam's photograph next to his CiF article suggests to me that he could do with a dose of humour to reduce the heart attack inducing stress evident in his life. Hint - if you don't like pubs which can't make provision for smokers out of sight of the front door, maybe chose another that does if you don't like it.
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About Jock

Name: Jock Coats
Age: 40s
Lives: Oxford, UK
Works: IT Support, Oxford Brookes University, where I am also a Governor of the University and a Warden in a hall of residence.
I am a card carrying Lib Dem, but am a confirmed market-anarchist, of the US Individualist Anarchists or Mutualist tradition. Other passions are social enterprise, monetary reform and housing. See full profile and contact form and at the following web-haunts:
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Unintended but entirely predictable...
Unintended but entirely predictable given what had already been seen in Ireland and other places! Even if you don't feel like complaining it is surely not beyond the wit of the man to take a decent breath and be able to get past them without having to inhale!
I don't understand why he even wants to go to a pub anyway. There's bound to be all sorts of things going on he won't like wherever two or more people are gathered together!Ah the law of unintended