Just what is it with the need to nag people into abstinence at the start of the year?

Just what is it with the need to nag people into abstinence at the start of the year?
Why we should mistrust the motivations of both the pro and anti lockdown lobbies.
Moral campaigners and social control freaks are trying to use the current crisis to force through more restrictions on how we live.
Britain’s miserablist and moralising newspaper calls for the return of prohibition – but for men only.
The insidious rise of Nudge Theory as a form of social control.