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ANOTHER AUGUST, another parade of drug death statistics. The papers fill, the politicians posture, the quangos rehearse their lines. Then, as sure as night follows
THIS WEEK’S report on drug related deaths in Scotland gives food for thought on one of the largest public health disasters since devolution started. Like
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I RECENTLY rediscovered my first online post of April 2015, an early debunking of the climate change hoax and what later became Net Zero. I
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