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The way we were.

August 15, 2009

Life used to be very simple. You found a husband, got married, got pregnant. A few people skipped the middle bit, but not so many as tipped the social balance. When the time came, you tied a tea towel round the bed head, hung on for grim death and gave birth. If you’d been fortunate [...]

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Fat is not a political issue.

March 23, 2009

The news this week that the state was handing over £3million a year to Weight Watchers, and Slimmers World, to persuade the ‘deserving poor’ to shed some of their lard, incensed me. It came hard on the heels of a government report lambasting ministers for spending vast sums of money on “ineffective and possibly damaging” [...]

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Marching towards an imposed morality……..

March 17, 2009

All law is imposed morality. Law is never neutral; it rewards certain behaviours and agreement with those values doesn’t make them any less of an imposed morality. Despite the fact that it stakes a high moral purpose, particularly after the excessive law making of Tony Blair’s government, and Gordon Brown’s claims to set a moral [...]

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Skeletons in the cupboard.

March 11, 2009

On Monday 9 March 2009, the Channel 4 Dispatches programme broadcast How They Squander Our Billions, a documentary on government projects including the NHS’s National Programme for IT (NPfIT). The NPfIT had an initial announced cost of £2.3bn which rose to £6.2bn and later £12.7bn. A key objective of the NPfIT is the introduction of [...]

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