Doctors are seeing patients in their late teens and early twenties with severe alcohol-related disease.More than a hundred specialists from around the UK have told the BBC of their concerns in response to a questionnaire.They said their hospital wards are being filled by a growing number of young people, particularly women.
BBC NEWS | Health | Alcohol disease ‘hits young hard’.
Well, this is not news to me, surely everyone knows that alcohol is deadly and that our young are drinking far too much of it?
The question is, what can we do about – I think that encouraging 24–hour drinking doesn’t help - and a significant dose of additional taxation would probably quell people’s appetites for booze 
The Emirates project has been a huge success for Arsenal - it just goes to prove what good management can achieve when they have the right strategy and good execution - what a shame that we cannot seem to run public infrastructure projects as well - the Public Sector could learn a lot from projects like this.
Arsenal is currently generating about £3m per game at the new stadium, with near-capacity attendances, which must make Roman Abramovich choke on his pelmeni because Chelsea can barely scrape together 30,000 visitors these days.
All of this has lead to Arsenal become the richest football club in Britain and has secured our position as one of the world’s premier sports team - the turnover for this financial year will be over £200m.
Oh, it’s good to be a Gunner!
Today I finally complete on my purchase of an newly-completed apartment in a converted warehouse in Kings Langley, just on the outskirts of London… It’s a quirky three-bed, duplex penthouse at the front of the building that I happened across this Spring.
Naturally, I’m delighted, but I am also ambivalent about the prospect of finally leaving London. I’ve often talked about it, but now the thought of actually doing it fills me with trepidation.
London is like that girl you fancied at school, but who treated you like dirt! No matter how bad she makes you feel, you just cannot help being attracted to her and lusting after her, but sometimes you wish that you had never met her.
So, I’ll hedge my bets and keep my place in Crouch End too… If Boris Johnson wins the race to be Mayor of London, I’ll move out for sure!
I can imagine nothing worse than waking up to find flood water in your house.
When I was a child, I used to have a recurring dream about living in top-floor apartment, surrounded by water from a heavily-flooded River Thames… It was pretty disturbing, but not as disturbing as the real thing, I’m sure.
Those people who live in beautiful houses near rivers must be really devastated, because after years of valuing their unique and historic houses, they now find that their homes are uninsurable and may no longer be worth much - on top of having their domestic lives ruined.
To add insult to injury, these people don’t seem to be getting as much sympathy as one would expect:
“It’s just global warming - deal with it!” summarises some of the comments that I have heard. Shocking really.
If it really is Global Warming, then how come some of the same areas that we are flooded this year had their hottest ever summer last year? And even if it is Global Warming, then it’s kind of all our responsibility, not just those people that live in flood-plains.
Whatever the causes, it seems that we must be braced for increasingly unpredictable weather in the future, so what are we going to do about it?
Us Townies shrugging our shoulders and getting on with life while our Rural cousins suffer is probably not acceptable - we need to fundamentally change the way that we live if we’re going to be able to cope with what the future has in store for us.
I must say, Gordon Brown has been very, very impressive in his first few weeks as Prime Minister.
However, it is slightly concerning that the Conservatives seem to be in meltdown - we clearly need an effective opposition in this country to ensure that democracy is protected, but it looks like we will be heading for a fourth Labour term with a whopping majority.
I think that Gordie is going to be a great Prime Minister, but it is essential for the country that the Conservatives get their house in order and start to present a coherent set of policies together with a strategy for tackling some of the problems faced by British society.
I feel sorry for David Cameron - his trip to Rwanda coinciding with the terrible floods (which affected his constituency) was unlucky, but the fallout does show how delicate his relationship with the electorate is right now.
