Once again, while myopic politicians preach tired sermons pioneered by President Richard Nixon about defeating the scourge of narcotics, there is a safer and more sensible alternative if only they displayed a little courage.
Then there is the Daily Mail, scourge of the Leveson process for its supposed threat to freedom of the press.
Abolishing a jobs tax on employing young people under 21 will make a real difference and help tackle the scourge of youth unemployment.
Understanding that it affects rich and poor, successful and not so successful, men and women, old and young also helps you to comprehend: this is a universal scourge.
The scourge of modern medicine is fragmentation, over-investigation, poly pharmacy and repeated hospital admissions.
"But for all of us, we must be asking ourselves now about our culture, about our attitudes and what can we do as neighbours and family and friends, what can each one of us do about this appalling scourge in our society.
Farage, that scourge of the metropolitan elite, could not be reached because he was lunching at the Ivy – and was said to be "only on his first bottle".
Little wonder that most celebrated legendary figure of them all, the scourge of the Sheriff of Nottingham and the leader of Sherwood Forest's Merry Men, was called Robin".
Even our great capital isn't immune from the terror scourge of the cycle psychos.
But one of the biggest cheers of the day was for Raheel Sharif, the army chief who has developed a reputation as a scourge of militancy, having bounced Pakistan's unwilling government into launching a major military operation last June against Taliban sanctuaries in North Waziristan, a long-festering trouble spot bordering Afghanistan.
Cricket lovers have a right to feel the same way about the scourge of the two-Test series.
