A tarnished 'expert'

War on Drugs latest. Some of you may recall how a serious and thoughtful GP, Dr Hans-Christian Raabe, pictured right, was last year dumped from the Government’s Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD). Dr Raabe took an unfashionable position – that drug-taking was wrong and needed to be discouraged.

Officially, he was got rid of because of some views he once expressed about homosexuality, views very similar to those once also expressed by the Home Office, which sacked him. But this week we learned a bit more about the sort of people the Government is happy to have on the ACMD.

Meet ACMD member Sarah Graham, 43, who has revealed how – as a BBC executive – she was introduced to cocaine at the Groucho Club and ended up spending £600 a week on the illegal drug.

No doubt she’s very sympathetic to the stern prosecution of people who break the drug possession laws.