Institute of Alcohol Studies - Revision history

Paul Herring at 16:20, 27 March 2020

2020-03-27T16:20:51Z

Paul Herring: /* Complaint to IPSO */

2017-01-30T11:54:12Z

Complaint to IPSO

Paul Herring at 13:54, 23 January 2017

2017-01-23T13:54:03Z

Paul Herring: Created page with "The Institute of Alcohol Studies is an anti-alcohol organisation, a Fakecharity, and is the trading arm of another charity - the Alliance House Foundation. The latter..."

2017-01-23T13:39:13Z

Created page with "The Institute of Alcohol Studies is an anti-alcohol organisation, a Fakecharity, and is the trading arm of another charity - the Alliance House Foundation. The latter..."

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The Institute of Alcohol Studies is an anti-alcohol organisation, a [[Fakecharity]], and is the trading arm of another charity - the [[Alliance House Foundation]]. The latter has had numerous names in the past, later ones were changed to make the organisation seem less prudish and puritanical<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_Alliance United Kingdom Alliance] - Wikipedia</ref>:

20 July 1852 - The [[National League for the Total and Legal Suppression of Intemperance]] was formed by [[Nathaniel Card]] - a Quaker and previously a member of the [[Manchester and Salford Temperance Society]]. Rather than espouse temperance and teetotalism, they aimed for actual legislation to ban alcohol completely.

14 Feb 1853 - The name changed to the [[United Kingdom Alliance for the Suppression of the Traffic in all Intoxicating Liquors]].

1942 - The organisation became a limited company and changed its name to [[UK Temperance Alliance Ltd]]

2003 - Change of name again to [[Alliance House Foundation]]

==References==

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[[Category:Alcohol]]
[[Category:Charity]]
[[Category:Fake Charity]]

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 {{quote|The report to Britain’s chief medical officers, who provoked an outcry when they announced the new limit in January, did not mention that four key figures behind it were closely associated with the Institute of Alcohol Studies (IAS), a lobby group financed by the temperance movement.}}
-The four alluded to were [[Linda Bauld]], [[Gerard Hastings]], [[Katherine Brown]] and [[Petra Meier]]. Another present was [[Ian Gilmore]] of the [[Alcohol Health Alliance]]<ref>[http://velvetgloveironfist.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-institute-of-alcohol-studies-is_20.html The Institute of Alcohol Studies is officially anti-alcohol] - Velvet Glove, Iron Fist blog</ref>.
+The four alluded to were [[Linda Bauld]], [[Gerard Hastings]], [[Katherine Brown]] and [[Petra Meier]]. Also present were [[Ian Gilmore]] and [[Nick Sheron]], founders of the [[Alcohol Health Alliance]]<ref>[http://velvetgloveironfist.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-institute-of-alcohol-studies-is_20.html The Institute of Alcohol Studies is officially anti-alcohol] - Velvet Glove, Iron Fist blog</ref><ref>[https://iea.org.uk/public-health-england-a-tax-funded-neo-temperance-campaign-group/ - Public Health England: a tax-funded neo-temperance campaign group] - [[IEA]]</ref>.
 As a result of the paper's story, the head of [[Institute of Alcohol Studies]], [[Katherine Brown]] complained about her organisation's portrayal, claiming that

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		+	= Complaint to [[IPSO]] =
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		+	On 30th May 2016, [[The Times]] published an article titled [http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/anti-drink-lobby-drew-up-official-safety-limits-zwz7m7db8 "Anti-drink lobby drew up official safety limits"] in which it claimed that
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		+	{{quote\|The report to Britain’s chief medical officers, who provoked an outcry when they announced the new limit in January, did not mention that four key figures behind it were closely associated with the Institute of Alcohol Studies (IAS), a lobby group financed by the temperance movement.}}
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		+	The four alluded to were [[Linda Bauld]], [[Gerard Hastings]], [[Katherine Brown]] and [[Petra Meier]]. Another present was [[Ian Gilmore]] of the [[Alcohol Health Alliance]]<ref>[http://velvetgloveironfist.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-institute-of-alcohol-studies-is_20.html The Institute of Alcohol Studies is officially anti-alcohol] - Velvet Glove, Iron Fist blog</ref>.
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		+	As a result of the paper's story, the head of [[Institute of Alcohol Studies]], [[Katherine Brown]] complained about her organisation's portrayal, claiming that
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		+	{{quote\|no members of the ''[guidelines development group]'' were “anti-alcohol lobbyists”, nor do they have any links to “anti-alcohol organisations”.<ref>[https://www.ipso.co.uk/rulings-and-resolution-statements/ruling/?id=04923-16 04923-16 Brown v The Times] - IPSO</ref>}}
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		+	IPSO, however was having none of it and threw the complaint out, not upheld.

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