Visiting Alien Makes Important Discovery

Well, OK, we'll give her some credit for getting the correct diagnosis, but what is it with these people and the constant quest for 'root causes' ?

Britons are incapable of emulating the European drinking culture because they "enjoy getting drunk," Labour party chairman Hazel Blears has said.

She told the Sunday Times people enjoyed "risk-taking" and "want to push the limits of danger".

Well, either that or we just, y'know, like getting loaded. Sober and drunk is the difference between walking round with an albatross round the neck and being an albatross borne aloft on wings of hooch.