An adventure into drugs policy, risk and mortality statistics…

As DK kindly points out, in the postscript to this post, I’m the kind of leftie who likes to do the research and back up my arguments with evidence, so when I run into disputes such as this one:
Narrative #2: but, of course, one of the most popular narratives that the Left love to employ [...]

Today sees the release of the latest set of abortion statistics by the Department of Health and, naturally enough, this has brought Nadine Dorries and other pro-lifers crawling out of the woodwork, once again, to tell us all that the sky is still falling.
The headline figure is that the overall number of abortions is up, [...]

I promised you all another venture in the realms of MadNaddery and here it is…
First of all, to pick up the weekend’s events let me direct you to Bookdrunk who’s nicely covered all the relevant ground vis-a-vis the bullshit that’s appeared in the Daily Mail over the weekend…
nadine dorries: age shall not wither her (problem [...]

For an all too brief moment I thought that Mad Nad might be gearing up for a startling admission:
When on TV, It’s ok to argue your point as hard as you wish, and to use evidence and statistics to back that point up.
It’s not ok to lie.
What? Is this to be a belated mea culpa [...]