If there’s one thing that politicians seem to agree on these days, it's ‘Let's ban it’!

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The sale of high-caffeine energy drinks to under-16s is to be banned in England from April 2027. Disposable vapes have already been entirely banned and then there is the Government's plan for a smoke-free generation. When did banning things become Plan A for solving every problem?

The Government should be preventing harm, enforcing standards and tackling illegal behaviour, not replacing the role of parents or regulating every choice we make as individuals. We should all worry about creating a culture where parents are viewed as bystanders and government becomes the default decision-maker for every aspect of our lives.

The answer to every parenting challenge is not to remove choices from everyone and the challenge for policymakers is not to eliminate every risk from life; it is to manage risk intelligently. The question we........

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