We only drink to be naughty
The reason we drink is that we think it’s naughty
12 December 2007
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It's silly to see booze as sinful
As we become ever more steeped in Protestant guilt over the next week or so, each additional glass of wine swelling the self-loathing, redemption is in sight. New Year’s Day looms in all its stark innocence, symbolising enforced abstinence, a return to purity and, for a few weeks at least, the weight of our sinfulness will be lifted. Only then, as we all know, around 7 January, when virtue becomes boring, a friend offers us a glass, we accept, and the whole contorted mindset starts again.
There is a single explanation for Britain’s problem with alcohol: we think it’s naughty. Why that theatrical pause before accepting a drink? The bitten bottom lip and, ‘Well I shouldn’t . . .’? For the pure delight of giving in. Only the question wasn’t ‘Shall we go and get his and hers tattoos?’ or ‘Why don’t we pop over to Amy Winehouse’s and see if she’s got any smack?’ It was, quite simply, ‘Red or white?’
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