Hi. I also found this blog via BBC News, and this is the first article of it that I read. I agree with the poster and the comments that if they introduce 24 hour drinking, that the culture for slowing down the pace of drinking is not in place. In fact, if they did, then England would descend into anarchy. No, not the kind proposed by the Sex-Pistols - I mean the kind that went on in Baghdad just after the fall of Saddam. Anyway, the current licencing laws make the streets at around 11:30 onwards an interesting place to be, as all the drunks are simultaneously turned out. If the pubs stay open longer, then all this good-natured merry-ness, could easily turn into a massive street-brawl. So to sum up, keep last orders at 11. Anyway, I'm off for a pint. Toodle...