Seemingly, if it is suggested that a prominent individual has used an illegal drug, it is instantly newsworthy, and it indicates that the alleged user is inherently immoral.
Paul Flowers and the stigmatisation of drug users
Rejecting the EU plan to regulate legal highs is yet another lost battle in the UK’s war on drugs
Earlier this week, the Home Office minister – Norman Baker – announced that the government would be opting out of the regulation and directive targeting ‘legal high’ drugs proposed by the European Commission. (Article republished from the Independent)
The War on Drugs is a tool of state oppression
Drug prohibition - the illegality of many psychoactive substances - is an accepted norm in the UK, although this hasn’t been the case for long. (Article republished from the Independent)
Government policy on legal highs is so much smoke and mirrors
New laws criminalising "legal highs" may increase health harms. (Article republished from the Independent)
Margaret Thatcher’s death: the slightly morbid afterparty
My experience at a street "afterparty" celebrating Margaret Thatcher's death.
Caste discrimination in the UK: the hidden apartheid
Despite leaving the Indian subcontinent, many UK citizens from the South Asian diaspora continue to experience the effects of the caste system in their daily lives.
