March 2016

A ten year-old girl called Charlotte was widely reported in the press as having bested Andrew Neill during a television programme recently. In a discussion about the government’s proposals to ban unhealthy food from schools, Neill asked her whether she knew what the nanny state was. Little Charlotte replied by reading something from a page in front of her. She … [Read on]

The reason for the change, he told me, was economy. Before the change, the mentally handicapped were taken individually to school in taxis at a cost of £1000 a day. Now they go in a minibus at a cost of £250 a day. The question, of course, is why this economy was not made before it became financially impossible to … [Read on]