Risky Business
So people are doing stuff that the authorities regard as an unnecessary risk. Hundreds of people ignored official advice and walked to St Helen’s Fort […]
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Piers Being a Twat
Piers Morgan seems to swing between being sort of on the right track and being an absolute twat. Today, it’s the latter. Piers then turned […]
A Guarded Response
To this story. A train company has been fined £1 million for breaching health and safety duties after a passenger was killed leaning out of a […]
A Salty Problem.
Thousands have died apparently. Voluntary action by the food industry and retailers has failed to bring the nation’s salt intake down to safe levels and thousands of […]
Infantilising Parents
What we need is less government. Parents are being urged to ditch mobile phones and iPads before going to bed to set an example for […]
1984 Was Not Supposed to be an Instruction Manual
I was going to comment on this one yesterday, but ran out of time. Still, no present like the time. A new NHS initiative will force families […]
Health Nazis Again
PHE are up to their usual tricks. Public Health England (PHE) is demanding a “calorie-cap” on supermarket ready-meals and fast food dishes. None of this being any […]
Questions We Can Answer
Do government health campaigns herald the nanny state? Yes. Simple, eh? Although, to be fair, the Nanny State is not at its dawn, it has […]
How Refreshing
Nanny is given the elbow… The vast majority of UK internet users are not taking advantage of net censors designed to filter out pornography and […]