ACCORDING to the sartorially challenged but slick Yorkshire crooner Robert Palmer in 1985, we all had to face being addicted to love.

The hit song epitomised the decade of excess as the accompanying video of women in little black dresses playing along caused quite a storm, even for the MTV video age.

Quite how it would go down today is anyone’s guess but, regardless, it remains a classic of the time and if you hear it on the radio it is hard not to immediately think of the video.

Fast forward to today and it is easy to think that Scottish ministers are in the middle of their own follow up single in that they appear to be addicted to bans.

Everything appears to be falling foul of the great authoritarian purge as ministers meddle into our lives in ever increasing ways.

It’s like 1984 meets Brave New World at times - but set in 2024.

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