Behold, the new nanny-free state. Cheap pop for all and no one to say it’s bad for us | Alex Clark

The libertarians offer to cut ‘sin taxes’ as they take away the services that would truly improve our lot

We are all children sometimes, desperate to ignore the fact that what we want is not always what we need. Our adult selves retain a fascination with excess, falling off the wagons of healthy eating and safe units of alcohol and 10,000 steps a day with – for some – too great a frequency for comfort.

Weight-loss programmes falter not because we can’t educate our palates to enjoy grilled salmon and steamed green beans, but because sometimes – out of tiredness, or boredom, or excitement – we just really want a biscuit. I write as a woman who last week went to the very back of the kitchen cupboard in search of a small box of chocolate truffles I remembered having been given for Christmas. Reader, they turned out to be miniature bath bombs. It was a heartbreaking moment.

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