There’s something wrong with the alcohol watchdog. They have commissioned a report into a beer because it has a name that could be termed “aggressive”: Skull Splitter.

Yet this isn’t a new alcopop or “yoof” drink, but rather an 8.5% ale created more than 20 years ago.

One could understand there being complaints if it was an alcopop or otherwise aimed at the “yoof” market, as it would be seen as encouraging alcohol-fueled violence. But it isn’t. The sort of people who would drink this ale aren’t the sort that would then go out and have a fight in the town centre.

The name “Skull Splitter” – after Thorfinn Hausakluif, the seventh Viking earl of Orkney who had that nickname – may well be slightly aggressive. But that is no reason to ban the sale of any alcoholic beverage, no matter it’s target demographic.

When will we finally slay the idiocy political correctness that reults in this sort of thing?