Bad journalism?

Is any other fellow British wine lover spluttering over their paper this morning? My Guardian states twice, in its report of a government-commissioned study of the likely effects of various alcohol-related policies, that 'a ban on supermarket and off-licence discount promotions [of alcoholic drinks] would cut crime by 14,000 offences a year, including 4,000 violent incidents, and reduce absenteeism from work'.

Aren't there a few conditional tenses and provisional adverbs and clauses missing here?

But the headline is certainly pretty sobering: 'Cheap alcohol ban will hit wine drinkers most'. It is true that British supermarkets have been using wine as...