Council on Drinking

Should we have a drink or two before work? Should we have the taxpayers cover our tab? These are questions being asked in Sydney, Australia. LINK

Alcohol, George Bernard Shaw wrote, enables parliament to do things at 11 at night that no sane person would do at 11 in the morning. But sobriety, it seems, is back in vogue in Sydney, where two councillors are planning heresy by introducing prohibition to council meetings.