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As the annual furore dies down over the Good Friday drink ban, is it time to have a sober, mature discussion about our relationship with drink? Maybe not – we could just start campaigning for the ban to be dropped next year instead

Will opening the pubs 364 days a year – rather than 363 – make us any more mature, or honest, about our relationship with alcohol?
Will opening the pubs 364 days a year – rather than 363 – make us any more mature, or honest, about our relationship with alcohol?

And so another Good Friday has come and gone, and we managed, somehow, to weather it, despite the ban on alcohol sales for the day.

Those of us with sufficient foresight will have made sure our fridges were well stocked with emergency alcohol supplies (in the event of a sudden ...