Would also point you to this article from the English edition of
Le Monde detailing the full horror of this trial.
If you read one other piece on it, read this. Needs a content warning.
"After eight weeks of wading through the swamp, our notebooks are full of mud."
www.lemonde.fr/en/france/ar...

Righto

Righto

Go read the story.

The minimum unit price was raised from 50p to 65p in September. That’s created a much larger gap between Scottish and English prices. The 2023 review of the impact of the previous price was produced by Scottish Government-funded Public Health Scotland. It’s worth a read to understand the methodology

Sigh. And they said this was the nice place… Apart from the reporting from the English supermarkets, the easily checked price disparities and retailers large and small confirming it, is there anything else you dislike about the story?

A bottle of gin now costs £7.38 more in Scotland - and beer and cider is up to twice as expensive. So people are stocking up in Berwick and Carlisle or shopping online for delivery at English prices. Shoplifting is also up and small Scottish retailers are feeling the pinch.

Thank you

Would love to be part of this. I’ve been running a nature community interest company - link below - as a Covid-enforced career break. But returning to journalism next month and open to commissions for words and pictures.

And if you want a moment that encapsulates the stupidity of the whole exercise, try this. It’s a verbatim account of the aftermath of the killing of a young man at a Baghdad checkpoint. US soldiers were assigned to the same location for their full tour: scared and bored.
gethinchamberlain.com?p=1585