Credit to Brenda Steele for heroically listening to this and alerting me to it. Good Morning Scotland opens with: ‘And questions over the Scottish Government’s minimum unit pricing policy as a report suggests there’s been no fall in alcohol-related deaths.’ There then follows a debate where the interviewer does challenge the researcher from the Institute for Economic Affairs with just finding what they believed would be there anyway before allowing him to outline his findings. To be fair, another expert voice suggests it’s too early to draw any conclusions and refers to lower hospital admissions by those from more deprived … Continue reading Good Morning Scotland allows disreputable alcohol-funded lobbyists to undermine SNP minimum pricing policy