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orders. In this episode myself and Chris are joined by Spikes editor

Brendan O'Neill to discuss minimum pricing on booze, Public Health England's calls for calorie

caps and if watching Love Island is bad for your health. Enjoy. Welcome to Last Orders, The Spite Podcast on All Things Nanny State. I'm Tom Slater, deputy editor at Spite. As ever, I'm joined today by

Chris Snowden of the Institute of Economic Affairs and the author of Kiljoys, a

critique of paternalism. Hello Chris. Hello. And our special guest today is

Spite's editor Brendan O'Neill, also prolific commentator, author, and perhaps most

pertinent for this discussion he also has a food column in Spectator Life.

So hello Brendan.

Hi Tom. So let's kick things off. We're going to be talking about minimum pricing on alcohol.

So in May Scotland is due to set the minimum price per unit 50pence after it beat a legal challenge at the Supreme Court at the tail end of last year.

Wales I here is soon expected to follow suits and it's beginning to feel like the battle on this

issue is more or less settled at least legislatively. So dark times perhaps but

Chris for those who haven't been following this for all the years that it's taken to get

to this point what is minimum pricing what does it do and why is it a terrible idea?

Minimum pricing is a floor price what does it do and why is it a terrible idea?

Minimum pricing is a floor price on alcohol so it doesn't necessarily add to the price of

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