Having been away for a week, I didn’t comment on the proposals to ban the airbrushing of models which will be debated at the Lib Dem conference next month. The real problem about commenting on this is that we have yet to see the full proposals. The Lib Dem blogosphere, particularly the Libertarians, love to… Continue reading Airbrushing: will Jo Swinson blind us with science?
Tag: panics
WARNING! Reading this blog could make you fat.
I was otherwise occupied last night. If I hadn’t been, I’d have joined in with the chorus of disapproval regarding Nuffield Health and Prof Michael McMahon’s pop at fat ‘role models‘ (see also the Metro’s coverage). What to add that Costigan and Carol haven’t already said (or for that matter, Susie Orbach and Phill Jupitus)?… Continue reading WARNING! Reading this blog could make you fat.
One pig flu over the cuckoo’s nest
We are officially now in the grip of a new panic. Quite how justified all this screaming and shouting about swine influenza is remains to be seen, but there is certainly a lot of secondary nonsense starting to form. My favourite thus far is the Israel government’s insistence that it should be renamed “Mexican flu”… Continue reading One pig flu over the cuckoo’s nest