Did a marriage this afternoon. Would recommend.

Status update: ☀️☀️☀️🏖️☀️☀️☀️

Doing more of this sort of thing over on the other place these days. Because of obvious reasons.

I'm giving a talk for Sheffield Skeptics in the Pub on the evening of the 16th September about alcohol and health. It may feature the odd graph or two. Feel free to come along if that sounds like your kind of thing. Details: aske-skeptics.org.uk/sheffield.html

My predictive powers were (sadly) on point. x.com/victimofmaths/…

We can now update this plot of age-specific trends in alcohol-specific and drug misuse deaths in Scotland with 2023 data. All sorts of interesting things going on here. Not many of them are good though.

Alcoholism prevention poster, France, circa 1954: 'Health, sobriety: never more than a litre of wine a day'. Two years later, in 1956, the consumption of alcohol was outlawed in schools for children under 14.