A professor who has a way with words has said,
Parents who smoke in cars in front of small children are “committing a form of child abuse”.
My parents smoked in the car. I wouldn’t say that it thrilled me, but abuse? I think not. With the windows open, most of the smoke was expelled, otherwise my [...]

I am now required to visit the doctor every two months in order to get my prescription. This is a fairly recent development, as they weren’t bothered before. I always forget to book more than a week in advance and so I see a different doctor each time and therefore need to explain everything as [...]

I get the impression that ID cards will be forced on us sooner rather than later, despite what the new government says. Labour tried the threat of terrorism to scare us into accepting them, but most of us weren’t fooled by it. They should have tried this approach as reported in the Scotsman,
DRINKERS who look [...]

How much lower can this country sink? Channel 4 is set to air an advert for fakecharity Marie Stopes tonight during Davina McCall’s gameshow The Million Pound Drop Live.
The organisation, which carried out 65,000 abortions last year, has circumvented a ban on the commercials because it is a charity and does not make a profit [...]

Leg-iron has noticed that the Telegraph has discovered that the dying New Labour regime decided it was no longer necessary to send ambulances to take desperately ill people to hospital.
NHS bosses have axed rules which say victims of serious health emergencies should be sent transport which is able to take them to hospital.
Instead, trusts will [...]

Just before the 1983 General Election, Neil Kinnock uttered these ominous words,
If Margaret Thatcher wins on Thursday, I warn you not to be ordinary. I warn you not to be young. I warn you not to fall ill. I warn you not to get old.
He could equally have been warning about the state of the [...]

I don’t normally write about smoking, but things have become so unbelievably crazy that I’m going to start. Scottish Labour welcomes:
an initiative by the UK Government to halve the number of people smoking by 2010. The strategy includes a crackdown on cigarette smoking.
A crackdown?! You mean a total ban in all enclosed public places is [...]

I ended up on Thomas Byrne’s blog, ByrneTofferings (geddit?) and wondered who this chap is. The first bit of info on his About Me page is his liking for Diet Coke.
Hello, I’m Tom. I like Diet coke, Indiepop and Politics.
I warned him and thought it might be a timely reminder to repeat here – what [...]

The picture is of Ukrainians in Kiev burning a replica of an anti-flu mask in a protest against what they call government-inspired hysteria about swine flu that distracts the public from political issues.
Indeed. Last year, the WHO redefined what constitutes a ‘pandemic’ and removed the important factors that there must be a high morbidity and [...]

We know how much New Labour despises the individual (not just the family). They hate intelligence (because a little knowledge in the proles is a dangerous thing to the elite); that’s why we had to be dumbed down. They hate goodness (because through goodness comes strength); that’s why they teach children that all religions are [...]