Maybe a ban on sugary drinks initiated by a grey headed Caucasian homophobe clutching a bible do you think?

Sugar is addictive if people who crave it from drinks can't get the drinks they will get it from something else candy lollies etc.

So then they have to ban candies, forget the war on drugs we will have the war on sugar.

Rabble rousing risible rubbish and an outright deliberate disingenuous insult to intelligence!

What's next? The Asbestos Nazis strike again, the Nicotine Nazis strike again?

Sugar is both additive and empty calories, that can and does lead to health consequences like obesity and diabetes, if used in excess!

And sugary drinks absolutely loaded with incomprehensible amounts of UNNEEDED sugar, fructose, sucrose, glucose, or lactose, (milk sugar) are all sugar types and principal suspects in both health related outcomes, often with dire, life changing/life ending, consequences!
Alan B.

What a stupid title!
This is of course quite typical of people who write (rant) for the Spectator.
The modern dreadfully sane "everyman" of consumer society is a propagandized individual, participating in a "culture" of illusions and, effectively, self-destructing.
The principal way that this process of self-destruction is occurring is via the widespread consumption of packages of toxic chemicals sold as food in supermarkets - this includes sugar, corn syrup and the various kinds of artificial sweeteners.
How and why does the dreadfully sane every-person do this?
Almost everything that one buys (and thinks) is provided by commercial media and corporations via their 24/7 propaganda industry - aka the advertising industry. Womens magazines are of course an important component of this consumerist propaganda.
Two relevant references.
This Little Kiddy Went To Market - The Corporate Capture (Assault) on Children http://www.uow.edu.au/~sharonb/kiddy.html

The book by Stuart Ewen Captains of Consciousness Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture.

1984 is here!

What about a tax and ban on bread.

Each slice of bread has upwards of 43grm-45grm of sugar.

45grm sugar= 9 spoons of sugar.

I have observed that some very large people buying large quantities of coke zero, which is reported to have zero sugar.

Cherful
Most breads contain 1-3% sugar, and one slice of bread (~35g) thus has only less than 1g of sugar (a fifth of a teaspoon). This is 'slightly' less than the 45g that you claim!!