edit: context:
From The Independent:
Speaking at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool, public health minister Andrew Gwynne said the government is considering “tightening up the hours of operation” of bars and pubs as part of an attempt to improve health and combat anti-social behaviour.
But a Department for Health spokesman said: “This is categorically untrue.”
trying to wean europeans off their endemic alcoholism is whatever, i doubt you'll achieve much, and this is probably not the way to do it, but at least it's not a terrible idea in theory.
but i love this british practice of labelling socializing as "anti-social behavior".
reminds me of another british article where residents were worried that teenagers would congregate in parks and stand around and talk to each other, and how this anti-social behavior must be stopped.
Their idea of society is the profitable (for them) alienated nightmare world we currently inhabit. Anything that threatens to change that, like plebs hanging out and talking to one another, is necessarily "antisocial"
Anything done under the auspice of combating anti-social-behaviours the way the dismal isles understand is unequivocally bad