Tag Archives: Nanny State

Woman not allowed to take dog on bus on religious grounds

By DiamondGeezer | Published: June 25, 2010
Instalment number two of ‘The World’s Gone Mad’ is this example, again from the Telegraph. Judith Woods has twice in the last week been refused access to a bus because she wanted to take a dog with her. As far as my experience goes, you’re always allowed to take dogs on buses, unless they’re particularly [...]
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British Airways ban adult male from sitting next to unaccompanied minor

By DiamondGeezer | Published: June 25, 2010
Today’s (first) example of the world having gone totally insane is brought to us by the Telegraph. Hedge fund manager Mirko Fischer was on a plane from London to Luxembourg, when he swapped seats with his pregnant wife so that she could be by the window. BA staff then stepped in and told [...]
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Voting at 16? Good idea, bad idea or Trojan Horse?

By scrubber | Published: May 6, 2010
Both Labour and the Lib Dems have said that they favour lowering the voting age to 16. Why would they do that, I wonder, and is it a good idea? My father used to say to me: “There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure”, but it was [...]
Posted in General Election, Gordon Brown, Ministerial incompetence, Nanny State, New Labour, Nick Clegg, Parliament | Also tagged , , | 1 Comment

13 years of Labour: how much we have forgotten

By scrubber | Published: May 5, 2010
This film speaks for itself: it should be compulsory viewing for anyone tempted to vote Labour tomorrow. It wasn’t until the end that I realised who’d made it: powerful stuff. I wonder how they kept it so short… Wikio Wikio
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Suffering from election fatigue?

By DiamondGeezer | Published: April 28, 2010
I think I probably am, but not in the ways you might immediately think. In this era of media- and spin-led politics, we are seemingly interminably subjected to a constant barrage of soundbites, ‘news’, glad-handing, palm-pressing, baby-kissing and any other inconsequential drivel that our political classes and their sycophants in the media care to inflict upon [...]
Posted in Big Brother, Broken Britain, Climate Change, Corruption, David Cameron, Economy, European Union, Eurozone, General Election, Gordon Brown, Immigration, Legal lunacy, MPs Expenses, Ministerial incompetence, Nanny State, New Labour, Nick Clegg, Nigel Farage, Parliament, Taxation, Taxpayers' Money, Tony Blair, Tories, UKIP | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Sky News’ April Fool. A bit weak this year…

By scrubber | Published: April 1, 2010
I’ve been watching the media today looking for the usual April Fool stuff. There’ve been a couple of half-decent ones (especially this one), but the one on Sky News wasn’t up to much this year. They’ve been claiming that petrol is now £1.20 a litre, road tax has doubled (up to £950 a year) on some [...]
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Rudyard Kipling: The Beginnings

By scrubber | Published: March 28, 2010
Are we there yet, Dad? Nearly, children, very nearly… It was not part of their blood, It came to them very late With long arrears to make good, When the English began to hate. Wikio Wikio
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Advertising Standards Authority: Miliband’s climate change advert was propaganda

By scrubber | Published: March 17, 2010
We covered the run-up to this back in November when the “drowning dog” video first came to our attention, but now, finally, the ASA has decided which adverts in the £6m campaign were “misleading”. Bizarrely, the video we referred to in our report, and which incensed me for its transparent aim of planting propaganda in [...]
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Judge slams government for short sentences on teenage thugs – can broken Britain ever be fixed?

By DiamondGeezer | Published: March 12, 2010
As was reported in the Daily Mail today, Judge Kerry Macgill has hit out at government statutory guidelines for not allowing long-term custodial sentences to be imposed. Four teenagers, including two girls, forced a 17-year-old with learning disabilities from the children’s home in which he lived and repeatedly kicked and punched him, poured boiling water over [...]
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Nick Hogan Freed by the Blogosphere

By scrubber | Published: March 11, 2010
Firstly, apologies for the paucity of blogs recently, we have all been unusually busy this week, and not a hope of reading blogs, let alone writing. In catch-up mode, came across this excellent news on Guido’s blog. Nick Hogan, the “controller of a space” where smoking took place has been released from a term of 6 [...]
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