Alcohol
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The best rums for summer 2020
The Week Recommends Banish those lockdown blues with a bottle of one of these luxurious spirits
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Instant Opinion: ‘We need Big Brother to beat this virus’
In Depth Your guide to the best columns and commentary on Monday 20 April
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Best drinks to buy this Christmas
The Week Recommends If getting a bottle of wine seems too easy, try gin, tequila, whisky or cream liqueur
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Instant Opinion: Proroguing Parliament ‘an affront to democracy’
In Depth Your guide to the best columns and commentary on Thursday 29 August
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One in ten hospital patients dependent on alcohol
Speed Read Findings suggest the country’s drink problem is far worse than had been assumed
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Does mixing drinks make a hangover worse?
In Depth New study debunks ‘beer before wine’ mantra
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Pub closures: how Britain’s publicans are fighting back
In Depth Patrick Frawley, founder and owner of the East London Pub Co., on the future of the great British pub
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NHS funding Christmas ‘drunk tanks’
Speed Read Extra measures to keep revellers out of A&E as ‘Mad Friday’ arrives
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Dozens of offences quashed after forensic manipulation
Speed Read More than 10,500 test results under review after ‘most serious breach of forensic science standards in living memory’, says police chief
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What’s to blame for the rise in alcohol-related deaths?
Speed Read As deaths from drink nears recession record, a demographic shift and cuts to public health funding are under the spotlight
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Mixed picture for UK’s troubled pub sector
Speed Read Employment has risen over past decade even though a quarter of pubs have shut over the same period
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Limit alcohol adverts during winter months, says expert
Speed Read Study finds that alcohol abuse is more widespread in cold, dark weather
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Is it last orders for university initiations?
In Depth Newcastle student Ed Farmer died from excessive alcohol consumption following ceremony, inquest hears
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Why young Brits are turning away from alcohol
Speed Read New research suggests that close to a third of young people are teetotal
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