The state needs to butt out of Britain’s drinking habits | Simon Jenkins

These absurd new guidelines on how much alcohol we should drink are patronising and will have negligible effect on people’s health

Goodbye nudge, hello Big Brother. The new “limits” on how many drinks ministers feel are “safe” make no sense. For two decades, we have been told to closely monitor our units, with the number 21 hovering over us. Now the hyperactive health secretary Jeremy Hunt has decided to slash the number to 14, though leaving it the same (14) for women.

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