Start the day the false dichotomy way

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Okay, I should not really be surprised, following Tanya Gold's saga of her dysfunctional 'love'-life in Guardian Weekend (snarked on Saturday).

In her column today she makes the basic error of assuming that things - in this case alcoholism - are either 'genetic' (so you can't do anything about it, poor you, you have a disease) or 'choice' (in which case you should pull yourself together and snap out of it).

There could be a good column to be got out of interrogating these assumptions, but this is so not it.

Plz to be designing a t-shirt (or maybe a postcard) with a codfish and text 'It's Always More Complicated' that I could send to people like this. (Also to D Cameron etc who are playing the 'personal responsibility' card on this issue.)

No cuddle for Ms Gold from me.