Women Aren't Good At Science

Apparently, if Capita is to be believed, women aren't any good at science.

That at least is the conclusion that one must draw based on the fact that Capita ran an advert for a temporary science teacher at a male Muslim school, which specified "male science teacher".

Whatever happened to Nanny's equality laws (passed in the 70's)?

Unsurprisingly a few eyebrows were raised, and Crapita (sorry, Capita) were forced to withdraw the advert.

It seems that Nanny is scared of religion.

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Nanny Bans Cooked Meat

I see that some research carried out at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, and published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, indicates that browning meat in the oven, grill or frying pan (ie cooking meat) produces chemicals which may increase the risk of developing dementia.

Advanced glycation end (AGE) products have been linked to diseases such as type-2 diabetes. Mice fed a high-AGEs diet had a build-up of dangerous proteins in the brain and impaired cognitive function. AGEs occur during the cooking process.

A short-term analysis of people over 60 suggested a link between high levels of AGEs in the blood and cognitive decline.

However, whilst (according to experts) the results were "compelling" they do not provide "definitive answers".

Derek Hill, a professor of medical imaging sciences at University College London, is quoted by the BBC:

"The results are compelling.

Because cures for Alzheimer's disease remain a distant hope, efforts to prevent it are extremely important, but this study should be seen as encouraging further work, rather than as providing definitive answers. 

But it is grounds for optimism - this paper adds to the body of evidence suggesting that using preventative strategies might reduce the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias in society and that could have very positive impact on us all."

Dr Simon Ridley, from the charity Alzheimer's Research UK, said:

"Diabetes has previously been linked to an increased risk of dementia, and this small study provides some new insight into some of the possible molecular processes that may link the two conditions. 

It's important to note that the people in this study did not have dementia. This subject has so far not been well studied in people, and we don't yet know whether the amount of AGEs in our diet might affect our risk of dementia."

Whilst those with scientific backgrounds are clearly flagging that the findings are not definitive, and that further work and study is required, pound to a penny the scaremongers and Nanny's little helpers will mount a campaign against cooked meat.

Therefore in one step we will end up back to the age of the caveman (pre discovery of fire) when we ate raw meat.

Still, I for one am very fond of steak tartar.

Steak tartars all round!


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Nanny Bans E-fags

My thanks to a loyal reader who has pointed me to a particularly stupid piece of Nanny nonsense, emanating from Nanny's chums in Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust.

Nanny has decreed that because E-cigarettes (designed to help people quit smoking) look so much like the real thing, that they are to be banned from all buildings and grounds covered by the Trust (eg the Royal Sussex County Hospital and the Princess Royal Hospital).

A spokesman is quoted by the Argus:

“The trust’s smoke free working group took the view that some makes of e-cigarette look remarkably similar to ordinary cigarettes, particularly when seen from a distance or at a glance.

Allowing people to use e-cigarettes on site could therefore give the impression that the trust condones smoking on site, or does not actively enforce its no smoking policy. 

During the consultation process, the trust council, the health and safety committee and the hospital management board were all asked to consider this point and the rationale for banning e-cigarettes.”

What a load of bollocks!

Hospitals are ghastly stressful places to be in (whether you are a patient, or a member of staff); people incarcerated in these places should at least be given some means of stress relief, especially if that relief is provided by something as harmless as an E-cigarette.

I dare say the Trust will also ban people drinking Lucozade, Irn-Bru (and the equivalent) lest people mistake it at a distance for whisky!

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Nanny Sells Medical Records For Pittance

Last week NHS England agreed to delay its medical record sharing project (Care.data) by six months, so that people could be better informed about its "benefits".

This delay prompted a backlash from various organisations (eg the BMA) accusing the NHS of backing down to scaremongering (whipped up by the media and various pressure groups) about the dangers of sharing data.

One week on and blinkey blonky blimey we see that the the NHS has been forced to admit that it has been wrongly sharing hospital admission data (from 1989 to 2010) with the insurance industry (the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries).

The information given to the Institute (in exchange for a nominal sum of £2,220) contained details on treatments and diagnoses, age, the area the patient lived in, but not their names. The information was used to produce a report to help insurance firms price their products.

The Health and Social Care Information Centre, which runs the database of records, said "greater scrutiny" should have been applied.

No kidding!

A spokeswoman for the Health and Social Care Information Centre is quoted by the BBC:

"The HSCIC believes greater scrutiny should have been applied by our predecessor body [the centre was known as the NHS Information Centre at the time] prior to an instance where data was shared with an actuarial society. 

We would like to restate that full postcodes and dates of birth were not supplied as part of this data and that it was not used to analyse individual insurance premiums, but to analyse general variances in critical illness.

We are absolutely committed to the public understanding what is being done with their information."

I wonder why the rules were not followed, and why the sum Nanny received was so small?

I don't know what annoys me more, the fact that Nanny shared the data with the wrong people or that she sold it for a pittance.

Either way this clearly shows that Nanny cannot be trusted with our data!


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A Little of What You Fancy - Liquid Bread

I was gemused and heartened to read a wee while ago some sensible words of wisdom from Professor Charles Bamforth of the University of California, and author of Beer, Health and Nutrition,  about the benefits of drinking.

The professor was musing about those people who, during January, go "cold turkey" and give up booze for a month in the belief that it is good for them. The professor is of the view that drinking regularly throughout the post-New Year period would have had far more health benefits than going cold turkey.

He is quoted by the Independent:

“It’s well known that drinking too much can cause serious health problems. Many people don’t realise that drinking in moderation has significant health benefits and that moderate drinkers have a longer life expectancy than non-drinkers.

Regular moderate intake of alcohol is good for the heart and blood circulation.

The key is a little and often.  You are seriously mistaken if you think that having a month without drinking will protect you from the effects of excessive drinking for the rest of the year.

The best advice is to drink moderately throughout the year

The great thing about beer is that it is low in alcohol and brewed from natural raw materials so it’s a good source of important nutrients such as antioxidants, B vitamins and dietary silicon that promotes strong bones. Indeed beer used to be known as liquid bread”.

Nanny should stop trying to interfere in our drinking habits, and allow us to act as adults wrt sensible imbibing of liquid bread!

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Bread and Circuses

It has long been a maxim of governments, despots, Nanny et al that the people whom they rule need to be diverted from the important issues; usually via bread and circuses.

Step forward Peter Kyle, Labour parliamentary candidate for Hove, who is offering his own small "circus" in the form of a piano at Brighton station in order to divert the attention of commuters from the delays and generally squalor of commuting.

Kyle has offered to cover the costs of getting a piano. He is quoted by the Argus:

“Brighton and Hove is a creative city, packed full of talent. 

Just think how much of that talent passes through the wonderfully renovated central station at any one time? 

With all the delays and the travel chaos what better way to raise people’s spirits than to have a piano.”

Would it not be better, and more appreciated by the commuters, if the issues of the delays and chaos were addressed instead?

Kyle has sent a letter to Chris Burchell, managing director of Southern, making a formal offer to buy the piano.

“I would love to work with you to see if a suitable place could be found in our fantastic station to place a piano. 

Think of the potential to delight passengers as they spend a moment waiting for a train, or at other times when it could dissipate the frustration felt by people facing delays or those who have been battered by the weather on their journey to the station.”

May I ask loyal readers who have endured delays and travel chaos on trains if they would feel their frustrations dissipated by hearing a fellow commuter bang out a tune on the ivories? All of this assumes that the pianist is both sober and competent at playing the piano.

Kyle would better spend his energies looking into ways to improve the quality and punctuality of the train services from Brighton, especially at peak times.

By happenstance (as per the BBC) most train passengers are unaware of their rights to compensation after cancellations or delays. As many as 75% of those using Britain's railways do not know enough about claiming money back, according to the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR).

 

Pianos all round!

Meanwhile spokesman for Southern said:

“We think this is a great idea, but we have to look into the practicalities of it. 

We’ll be responding to Mr Kyle’s letter once we have gone through that process.” 

In the unlikely event a piano is installed, I would like to hear from loyal readers their requests for appropriate "commuting tunes" that should be played.

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John Prescott's Right To Be Offended

 John Prescott has taken offence at a joke on Twitter about his weight, and how the Hull floods of 2007 were caused by him getting out of the bath.

The joke was made by LBC radio presenter and political columnist Julia Hartley-Brewer.

I think Prescott is perfectly entitled to be offended about personal comments made about his physique. I also think he is perfectly entitled to complain to LBC, or the journalist concerned, about the comments.

However, he rather let himself down by making the complaint publicly on Twitter to his followers and the world in general. By drawing attention to the issue publicly he has created the suspicion that he was using it for self publicity, politicians have been known to do that sort of thing!


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Nanny Bans "Nude" 3D Scanner Advert

 

I see that the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has got its knickers in a twist over an advert for a "nude" 3D scanner app. This product appears to be the modern version of X-Ray specs.

The advert was approved by a compliance and clearing agency. However, it was shown during Hollyoaks at a time when apparently children could see it.

Seemingly a veritable tsunami of complaints were received by ASA. Well, actually, ASA received 26 complaints; prompting ASA to deem the advert "offensive".

All very well, but as far as I can see from the product's website, there is no nudity. The advert itself showed the crotch and breast blurred out; ie nothing more salacious than the average music video.

Good publicity for the product though well done ASA!

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Bug

Sorry folks, as per Tonk and others, there appears to be an issue wrt posting comments when using Firefox:

"Message for Anon from previous thread about bugs......I too am unable to post to threads using the Name/URL option, but only if using Firefox. I put in the information required but, when I hit publish, it all disappears.....I have to post to this site using Internet Explorer if I wish to have it appear on the thread."

I'm afraid the bug can only be fixed by either Firefox or Google, depending on where the bug actually resides.

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Nanny Is Mother Nanny Is Father

My thanks to a loyal reader who pointed me to plans by Scottish Nanny to appoint a "guardian" for every Scottish child, irrespective of whether the child has parents or is deemed to be at risk. Specifically Nanny wants to appoint specific named persons from the NHS and councils to monitor every young person's well-being from birth to 18.

How on earth do you effectively monitor a person for 18 years, surveillance cameras?

The proposals are outlined in the Scottish government's Children and Young People Bill, which will be debated by Holyrood at its final stage on Wednesday.

The Director of the Evangelical Alliance Scotland, Fred Drummond, is less than impressed and is quoted by the BBC:

"While we do not doubt the government's sincere intentions behind this bill, these proposals raise serious concerns about the role of the state in modern Scotland, have massive implications for the role of parents and appear to be begging for a fight in the law courts as some parents may wish to challenge it because it is not immediately apparent whether it is lawful under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)."

There is no provision in the Bill for withdrawal of consent by either parent or child.

As I have noted before, it is not the role of the state to act as mother and father to children who have decent parents and a safe domestic background.


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Ghastly!

The above photo (source The Mirror) is West Dunbartonshire Council's solution to wheelchair access to the home of a seven year old girl who has to use a wheelchair. My thanks to the loyal reader who pointed me to this story.

Ironically it seems that it has proven a hit with local youths and skateboarders.

The cost of this "fine" piece of design and engineering is estimated to be at least £40K!

Comments and architectural critiques are welcome.

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Big Brother - EU Drones

I am ungemused, but not surprised, to see that the EU superstate has been spending over £320M of EU taxpayers' money (£46M of UK taxpaeyrs' money) on developing surveillance drones without proper democratic oversight.

Neither the House of Commons nor the European Parliament has been consulted over the development of EU unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which are being designed to police Europe's skies on law enforcement missions.

A report by Statewatch, a European civil liberties watchdog, has uncovered a secret £58M budget line that was inserted into new EU legislation on air traffic control for this year as "a politically driven priority" to develop drones for surveillance by European police forces, border guards and security services.

MEPs and MPs will not be consulted on the programme or the regulation clearing the development of law enforcement drones that are expected to be cruising the skies in surveillance searches for criminals or to secure public order by the end of the decade.

Ben Hayes, one of the report's authors, is quoted by the Telegraph:

"Despite the widely held civil liberties and privacy concerns about the use of drones for policing and surveillance purposes, there's not been a single jot of democratic scrutiny of the EU's activities in this area.

This is a recipe for irresponsible innovation and a proper debate about where the technology is headed is long overdue."

Bernard Jenkin, Conservative MP for Harwich, chairman of the Commons public Administration select committee and a former shadow defence secretary, said:

"What more proof do people need that the EU is now beyond any kind of democratic accountability? This is a bureaucracy that is out of control, and spending taxpayers' money on the industries under whose influence they operate, with no democratic oversight.

If they had a choice, this is not what UK defence or Treasury ministers want to spend our money on."

A June 2013 commission "roadmap" acknowledged "societal issues" over aerial surveillance by drones but concluded in "the public area there is no privacy at all". 

Read that bit again.... 

NO PRIVACY AT ALL!

A UK government spokesman said:

"Decisions regarding the development of this technology is a sovereign matter, and not for EU institutions. The UK is working together with other countries, including France, on the development of certain technology aspects to reduce our own development costs. But the UK will not participate in a project to develop a European unmanned air system."

The only glimmer of hope that we may have is that if the current rain and wind continues these things will never get off the ground!

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Rain

I see it's raining again!

Don your hi-vis everyone!

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Flooding and Politicians

As the UK continues to be engulfed by a veritable biblical flood, it is worthwhile noting that where a real response/solution to the flooding and infrastructure failures is needed our "beloved" politicians (irrespective of their political leanings and the number of hi vis photo opportunities they avail themselves of) have been shown to be powerless, inept and lethargic.


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Nanny Hates Car Fags

Nanny will, in theory, make it a criminal offence to smoke in cars in England when children are passengers.

MPs voted in favour of an amendment to the Children and Families Bill, which empowers, but does not compel, ministers to bring in a ban in England.

I suspect that this will not make it into the legislative programme before the next election. Even if it does, enforcement will be nigh on impracticable. The next step will be to ban smoking in homes that contain children.

The irony is that those who voted for this ban (and indeed the ban on smoking in the workplace some years ago) are allowed to smoke in the Palace of Westminster.

Meanwhile we (children included) continue to be irreparably damaged by the toxic fumes emitted by cars, lorries and planes.

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In Other News

Wales appears to be leading the way in showing Nanny how to divert our attention from major issues.

The South Wales Evening News presents us with the news that a lady has worn the same cardigan for 54 years without ever losing a button!

Bread and circuses taken to a new low!

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Nanny Hates Fags In Cars

Today MPs will vote on whether to ban smoking in cars where children are present. It is expected that they will vote in favour of giving the Health Secretary the power to ban it, but that does not mean that the ban will come into force anytime soon (as it will  be dependant on the Health Secretary actually banning it).

In the event such a ban comes into being, quite how it will be enforced is another matter!

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Nanny Loves Little Animals

As the country endures a veritable 40 day biblical downpour of storms and floods (please note the water companies will be wasting most of this water and, come summer, will be claiming "drought"!), it is reassuring to know that Nanny's chums in the Environment Agency put the welfare of small animals and birds ahead of humans.

Aside from stopping the dredging of the 800 year old drainage channels in Somerset, lest the water voles be harmed, Nanny has also held back working on the protection of the Dawlish railway line until a study had been completed on the impact on local birdlife.

Lord Berkeley, a former rail industry executive, has said (as per the Telegraph) that the Environment Agency was “looking after birds before humans”.

The beaches and mudflats in the Dawlish area are a renowned haven for birdlife, home to 12,000 wading birds including oystercatchers and redshanks. Rare species including avocets and black-tailed godwits have also been seen.

Lord Berkeley said that the agency had not taken concerns about the railway seriously at a meeting.

“They said they could repopulate the beach, pump sand onto it to raise it up so the waves broke further out – but the birds would have to be looked after.” 

Nanny loves wildlife because it doesn't answer back, hence her continued efforts to turn us into hybrid "sheeple".

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Shock, Horror, Probe!

As per the Telegraph:

"..around 60 young people have gotten themselves into difficulties with alcohol."

Young people drinking and parting to excess?!!!

Surely not?
 
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Nanny Bans Mini Cheddars

I am underwhelmed to see that Nanny thinks it more important to police what parents put in their kids' lunch boxes, rather than provide kids with a decent education.

Such is the sorry tale to emerge from Colnbrook C of E Primary School, wherein Riley Pearson (six years old) was suspended for four days after Nanny discovered some Mini Cheddars in his packed lunch.

Riley's parents met with headmaster Jeremy Meek, after they were sent a letter telling them Riley would be excluded from Wednesday until Monday because he had been 'continuously breaking school rules' wrt "healthy eating".

Parents were told in January:

"Chocolate, sweets, crisps and fizzy drinks are not allowed. 

If your child's lunchbox is unhealthy and unbalanced they will be provided with a school lunch for which you will be charged."

Irrespective of whether the school has the right to judge what is "healthy" or not in a child's lunchbox, the letter does not mention anything about suspending pupils who are found with "forbidden" food.

Riley's mother, Natalie Mardle, is quoted by the Mail:

"We just do not see how they have the right to tell us what we can feed our son. 

If anything, Riley is underweight and could do with putting on a few pounds.

Having a balanced diet also includes eating some carbohydrates, sugars and fats.

I would understand the exclusion if he was constantly throwing tables around or bullying other children, but it is just ridiculous for a packet of Mini Cheddars."

Headteacher Mr Meek said:

"We have had a wonderful response and the parents and children are on board and pleased with the way the policy has been impacted on our pupils. 

We cannot talk about individual circumstances, but there is one family who are not prepared to support the policy. We are in discussions with them about how we move it forward. We have excluded [the pupil] for four days due to lack of support for the policy. 

It is to avoid putting the children in a difficult situation. If the policy is not being abided by, then that potentially harms that pupil."

I don't see how suspending the pupil (if he has not been disruptive) is at all helpful.

The disruption caused by pupils who are high on fizzy drinks and endless bags of crisps etc is as a result of them eating shit all day long, where a pupil has a balanced diet that includes a modest "indulgence" that pupil will not be disruptive because of that single "indulgence".

FYI, Riley has now been expelled and his younger brother suspended from the pre-school. Seemingly there have been "persistent and deliberate breach of school policy, such as bringing in crisps, biscuits, sausage rolls, mini sausages, scotch eggs and similar."

It is clear that the relationship between the parents and the school has completely broken down. The school also said the decision was taken because of (as per the Mail) "the parent school relationship suffering an irretrievable breakdown" due to "misrepresentations in the local and national media that were both wholly inaccurate and grossly misleading, abusive language being used towards staff, and other inappropriate actions being taken that were designed to damage the school’s reputation".

Thus we see that both Riley and his brother's education are now suffering.

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Nanny Is Mother, Nanny Is father

I am underwhelmed to see that the Tories are becoming more Nannyish in their views and policies, as evidenced by Michael Gove's recent announcement that he wants to extend the State school day to between 6pm and 7pm.

He claims that he wishes State schools to emulate private schools (which have post school day activities). This might be all very well and dandy if that meant such activities as model railway clubs, chess clubs and CCF etc.

However, pound to a penny, the reality will be that the extra hours will simply be used by Nanny and parents as a means of surrogate "daycare" or dumping ground for kids who actually don't want to be there after hours; ie Nanny will take on the role of the parents.

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Nanny's Motivational Texts

I see that Nanny is trying a new tactic in her war against obesity, namely sending obese people motivational texts.

Seemingly 500 obese people in Stoke-on-Trent who sign up for the £10,000 10 week scheme will be the joyful recipients of messages such as:

- "Use the stairs more"

- "Eat more fruit" etc.

Cabinet member for health Adrian Knapper is quoted by the BBC:

"On average it costs the same amount [£10,000] to perform just one intervention operation to help people manage their weight.

Our programme means people who already want to lose weight and have signed up with us to get support will receive a cheap and effective nudge to help keep them motivated."

I have to question how effective this will really be, whenever I receive a spam text I simply bin it.

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The Value of Consultations

As per Transport for London:

"Over 37,000 responses were received. Around a third of respondents agreed with the proposal to remove cash fares."

In other words two thirds of respondents did not agree with the proposal.

Can you guess children what TfL now intend to do?

Yes, that's right:

"We have made a decision to go ahead with a cashless fare system on London’s buses from summer this year."

Nannyism at its best, if the results of consultations don't match your intended plans then ignore the results.

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