The Last Ditch by Tom Paine

Link: Raedwald.

The prigs at Alcohol Concern believe (like so many other Statist swine) that they know better than us how to bring up our children. Both my daughters were introduced gradually to alcohol from a young age in the French manner, with a view to their learning to appreciate quality wine in joyful moderation. Understandably, Alcohol Concern’s demand to criminalise such an approach, has brought Devil’s Kitchen into full, fine, fulminating, foul-mouthed form:

Personally, I shall be sending a letter to Alcohol Concern, expressing
my concern at their authoritarian tendencies. Oh, and I’ll probably
call them a pack of ***** as well.

By comparison, Raedwald – the most articulate boat on the internet (and normally no slouch at invective) – comes over all lyrical on the subject:

When I think back on all the good things in my life – all those brief little scenarios of joy and pleasure, the warm laughter of friends, the passion of lovers, the sudden stunning realisations that you are gazing at a scene of true beauty, the closeness of companions who have shared past danger – always in the scene somewhere is alcohol. The old French vintner who declared "A day without wine is like a day without Sunshine" had it spot on.

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