Teach children to drink!

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I usually think Melissa Kite is rather good, but with this post she's either being disingenuous or plain stupid:

David Cameron has some good ideas from time to time but he also comes up with some right old clangers. Like his assertion today, made during his televised public holiday that children should be taught to drink alcohol safely.

Speaking to a group of young people (always a dangerous set-up) he said: "Some of the friends I had, the ones who had the biggest problems, were the ones who actually were never allowed to drink anything at home - whereas the ones who drink responsibly were the ones who were given a glass of wine or a small glass of beer or a shandy or something. That's the right way to do it in the home."

If the answer to alcoholism really is to teach children how to drink, then why don't the Tories propose giving away free Dubonnet and soda in schools during break time, or perhaps little bottles of vodka and red bull at lunch.

Cameron is bang on with this, and Melissa Kite about as wrong as one can be. It's not a clanger. It's absolutely right.

For anyone under the age of about thirty, the definition of a good night out is a night with the sole purpose of getting drunk. And what used to be a primarily male obsession