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Booze buses and drunken chip pan fires … time for a touch of temperance? | Ian Jack

Reported by guardian.co.uk on Friday, 15 June 2012 (on June 15, 2012)

Many of my parents' generation in Scotland were near-teetotal, perhaps out of resolve to be better than their hard-drinking Victorian forebears

Like the poll tax, what we now know as "British..

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