Betteridge’s law of headlines – which I have never yet found to be wrong – postulates that any headline in a newspaper or publication which ends in a question mark can be answered with the word “no”. And indeed, you’d have to be an almost irrational optimist to believe that the answer to the question above is any different. People who like to expand the power of the state never really retreat – they simply regroup and try again.
But all that said, something notable might be happening. Over the weekend Breda O’Brien – a good person, but a bit of a nanny stater herself – took to her perch in the Irish Times to bemoan in quite strong terms the Government’s apparent retreat on alcohol labelling:
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