In this bonus episode for Patreon subscribers, Emerald and Tom talk booze! Emerald is straight edge and Tom is an occasional lush, how do they feel about alcohol in 2026? Why are young people drinking less - are they wowsers or just poor? Is it poor form to have alcohol at Greens events? What is the left position on the demon drink?
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Links -

Socialism and Temperance Reform - in a 1908 edition of the Social Democrat https://www.marxists.org/archive/quelch/1908/01/temperance.htm

Flinders study: https://news.flinders.edu.au/blog/2025/10/07/drinking-through-the-generations/

2023 study https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dar.13709

Straight Edge: Hardcore Punk, Clean-living Youth, and Social Change by Ross Haenfler

Produced by Michael Griffin

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