'Government' Category
Will the UK Conservative Party bring back foxhunting?
The Nurse despises foxhunting.
While she is deeply suspicious of banning things - censorship being the thin edge of a very nasty wedge - cruelty is never acceptable.
So she was interested to see, during a recent edition of the BBC’s Country File, a hunt spokesman confirm that if the Conservative Party won the next election they’d seek to reverse the foxhunting ban.
Outraged, [...]Appeal for party politics co-operation
The Nurse has been observing UK party politicians up to their usual tricks in the Houses of Parliament this week. Name calling, accusation and counter-accusation, boos and roars of derision. All highly unappealing.
In times of crisis, with the economy going to shit around their ears, they’re fiddling – and wasting an enormous amount of time and intellectual effort [...]World Leaders: Bush, Brown, Merkel, Ahmadinejad and Putin a ‘bunch of twats’
The Nurse, brooding in Solitary after an unfortunate lapse in discipline, is immeasurably cheered by the headline, ‘Brighton-based World Leaders release fifth short political animation’
The Nurse likes her humour grounded in intelligence. From that basis, wild flights of fancy go down well. Political incorrectness and irreverence are a must. Swearing’s always funny when used unexpectedly, by unexpected people in unexpected [...]Poor Urban Planning Makes Children Fat
I have just been reading around a few blogs, forums and university studies on the subject of the much reported obesity epidemic. I was particularly struck by this post: Outdoor Play Facilities Urgently Needed and the warnings presented by Professor Dick Jackson that poor urban planning is a root cause of todays problems. And they [...]
When Estimates are Plain Wrong
The government’s inaccurate estimate of the number of foreign workers in the UK has been in the headlines this week. The estimate has reportedly been shy of about 400,000 workers who have come to the UK in the past 10 years.
How is it possible to get it so wrong? People who work in this country [...]
