If you've read the same BBC article as I did, Steve, you'll know another Dr said "There is no safe level of driving, but the government does not recommend that people avoid driving.

"Come to think of it, there is no safe level of living, but nobody would recommend abstention." ;-)

It should also be pointed out that the author of this report reportedly claimed the study was the most important study ever conducted on the subject. Well, duh, you wrote it, you would say that, wouldn't you!!

Here are a couple of links that may provide food for thought. I am not suggesting that alcohol isn't / doesn't, that high levels of consumption don't.... I don't know what the biases of the Spectator are, nor of the journalists who wrote the pieces. But read these & tell me that the new consumption guidelines are wholly scientific & not an attempt at social engineering. If only half of what the second piece alleges is true, Dame Sally Davies should not only be fired; frankly, she should be prosecuted for fraud!

How public health hid the truth about drinking

No wonder Britain’s alcohol guidelines are so extreme...