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Guideline labelling’s welcome return leaves open question

I have joined calls for official health guidelines to appear on all alcoholic drinks labels since revealing that they had been dropped from the UK’s voluntary code in my reporting in late 2017.


Unravelling “responsible drinking”

Unravelling “responsible drinking”
The UK health minister Matt Hancock this week invited us to join him in “responsible drinking”, as part of a contentious wider plan to use the idea of personal responsibility to ward off health problems. I have unravelled this…