Nanny Hates Salt and Sugar

Earlier this month Nanny and her tame media were screaming blue murder about the amount of sugar in some drinks served by well know coffee houses.

Certain establishments were serving liquid concoctions that contained as much as 25 teaspoonfuls of sugar. Personally speaking, I don't have a sweet tooth, as such I am mystified as to what the attraction is for people to want to eat so much sugar.

Anyhoo, live and let live is my motto.

Sadly that is not Nanny's motto!

That being said, I have good news for Nanny. An analysis by the Telegraph has found that many of the sandwiches and paninis sold by Starbucks, Caffe Nero and Costa contain high proportions of the maximum daily salt levels recommended by health experts.

One Starbucks panini alone contained 3.1g of salt, more than half the maximum daily recommended amount for adults, while a panini in Caffe Nero has 3.2g of salt.

Wise readers will immediately see that Nanny's salt and sugar problems are solved in one fell swoop.

How so?

The salt counterbalances the negative aspects of the sugar, and vice versa!

Obvious really isn't it?

Simples!
 

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The Dangers of Overdiagnosis

It appears that around 50% of kids diagnosed with asthma may in fact not have the condition at all.

The Telegraph reports that in a new study published in the British Journal of General Practice, researchers from the University Medical Centre in Utrecht, The Netherlands, looked at the medical records of 656 children diagnosed with asthma at four centres. 53 per cent were found to have no clinical signs of the condition.

It seems that some of the non asthma suffering children may have just had hay fever!

It makes one wonder, given how much money pharma companies make out of drugs, what other conditions (physical and mental) are in fact the figment of an over enthusiastic doctor's or parent's imagination!

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The Joy of Science - Fat Penguins Fall Over More Often on Treadmills

I am gemused to see that following detailed scientific research, it can now be categorically stated that fat king penguins have a propensity to fall over more often on treadmills than slimmer ones.

Put in scientific terms, as per The Guardian:

"These results indicate that heavier king penguins have a higher frontal and sagittal instability; they are less stable walkers than when they are lighter.”

I dare say the results of this study will be used by Nanny to further beat people over their heads wrt their weight.

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Car Pollution

As loyal readers know, Nanny hates fags and continually berates people who smoke warning them that the habit not only is dangerous to them but also harmful to anyone near them.

That is all well and good, if it were true, but I and others on this site have often noted that if Nanny wants to set her gimlet eyes on the dangers of air pollution then she ought to focus on cars, lorries and planes rather than berate the hapless fag smoker.

Well, I am pleasantly pleased to see that a study by the Royal College of Physicians into air pollution (aside from having a go at fags and air fresheners) has a go at cars.

As per LondonlovesBusiness the study estimates the that the cost of air pollution on public health, and business is over £20bn a year, and outdoor air pollution causes 40,000 recorded deaths in the UK per annum.

Around half the vehicles on the road in the UK now run on diesel, and by 2012 there was 10 times more traffic than in 1949.

Prof Stephen Holgate, an asthma expert at Southampton University and the chairman of the reporting group, warned that we are not taking the problem seriously enough.

“We all have a part to play to cut environmental pollution. We can’t see it, smell it or taste it, which is why people do not necessarily think we have a problem.

When you see cars piling up on the way to school taking their children, the fumes directly from the vehicle in front are being vented straight into the car behind, and exposing their child - and yet we are ignoring this.” 

Will Nanny now target cars instead of fags?

I bet she won't!

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Nanny's Fear of a Leap In The Dark

As we are set to endure four months of 24/7 media/political hysteria over the forthcoming EU referendum, may I make one wee observation re Cameron's daily warning about "leaps in the dark"?

This country made its fortune, and survived continental domination, by taking leaps in the dark and not playing safe!

History remembers the bold, not the faint hearted!

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US Nanny's Proxies Are Fighting Each Other In Syria

Those of you who are puzzled and confused by what is going on in Syria (remember folks, allegedly a ceasefire was agreed a week ago) may care to consider that US Nanny is even more confused.

It seems that officials with Syrian rebel battalions, that receive covert backing from one arm of the U.S. government, have told BuzzFeed News that they recently began fighting rival rebels supported by another arm of the U.S. government.

Yes, you did read that correctly, US armed proxies are fighting each other.

For why?

One arm of the US supports one set of proxies, whilst another arm is supporting another lot!

“It’s very strange, and I cannot understand it,” said Ahmed Othman, the commander of the U.S.-backed rebel battalion Furqa al-Sultan Murad, who said he had come under attack from U.S.-backed Kurdish militants in Aleppo this week.

Furqa al-Sultan Murad receives weapons from the U.S. and its allies as part of a covert program, overseen by the CIA, that aids rebel groups struggling to overthrow the government of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, according to rebel officials and analysts tracking the conflict.

The Kurdish militants, on the other hand, receive weapons and support from the Pentagon as part of U.S. efforts to fight ISIS. Known as the People’s Protection Units, or YPG, they are the centerpiece of the Obama administration’s strategy against the extremists in Syria and coordinate regularly with U.S. airstrikes.

Nanny should learn what Star Trek has taught us, namely the Non Interference Directive!

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The EU Renegotiations

In case anyone is interested, the EU renegotiations are still going on!

Essay-crisis Prime Minister pulls all-nighter, kinda. (From today's WaughZone)https://t.co/4wvCyr3tLb pic.twitter.com/Yygh0nwFW1

— Paul Waugh (@paulwaugh) February 19, 2016

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Happy National Drink Wine Day

May I take this opportunity to wish my American friends a Happy National Drink Wine Day.

This is celebrated annually on February 18 across the United States. The purpose being to spread the love and health benefits of wine. 

Wine has played an important role in history, religion and relationships. 

We embrace the positive benefits of wine such as new friends, reduced risk of heart disease and the enhancement of food and life.

Cheers!

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Intolerant Students Ban Peter Tatchell

It has come to a pretty pass when so called "educated" students are so afraid of having their world view contradicted that they refuse to listen to the opinions of Peter Tatchell.

I am old enough to remember when Tatchell was often in the public eye, campaigning for issues of equality and having a very robust go at Mugabe. Fair play to Tatchell he often got beaten up by Mugabe's goons, as such the man has guts!

Therefore I am more than disgusted to see that today's students regard him as racist and a transphobic.

FFS, this man has been at the forefront of every anti racist pro equality campaign since I was a nipper!

So disgusted is Tatchell with the state of affairs, that he has written an article in the Telegraph; here are the opening paragraphs:

"Free speech and enlightenment values are under attack in our universities. In the worthy name of defending the weak and marginalised, many student activists are now adopting the unworthy tactic of seeking to close down open debate. They want to censor people they disagree with. I am their latest victim.

This is not quite the Star Chamber, but it is the same intolerant mentality. Student leader Fran Cowling has denounced me as racist and transphobic, even though I’ve supported every anti-racist and pro-transgender campaign during my 49 years of human rights work.
 

Fran is the LGBT+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) Officer of the National Union of Students (NUS). She refused to speak at an LGBT event at Canterbury Christ Church University tonight unless I was dropped from the line-up. This is a variation of the NUS “no-platform” policy; instead of blocking me from speaking, Fran is refusing to share a platform with me. "

It would be wise to harken to his warning, free speech and enlightenment are under attack in our universities; not from the state, but from the students themselves!

As he concludes "Bad ideas are best defeated by good ideas. NUS, please take note."

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Stop Fat Shaming Children

The Independent reports that James Cracknell (an Olympian) has issued a report that says that schools should stop “fat shaming” overweight children, and instead give them helpful advice to lose weight.

The report notes that teachers outlining their concerns about chubby pupils in letters to parents are unwittingly contributing to other physical and mental health illness such as anorexia. Instead they should be told how to encourage more sleep, physical exercise and eat nutritious meals.

That all sounds very sensible, if the parents themselves are on board wrt healthy eating etc. Unfortunately Cracknell then goes on to back a sugar tax, and BMI measurements for kids.

Sigh!

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More Tithes For Our EU Overlords

I am ungemused to read that our EU overlords are telling Nanny's local councils to look for ways to increase taxes (allegedly to help cut pollution).

Motorists could be charged for driving through British towns and cities, and households could face a "bin tax" under EU plans to meet emissions targets.
 

The Telegraph reports that the European Commission has issued a new set of guidelines for councils on how to which sets how to meet targets to reduce emissions by 20 per cent by 2020.
 

It said that councils should send a "clear economic signal to polluters" to reduce vehicle emissions and encourage recycling.

Unless I am very much mistaken, council tax includes the costs of refuse collection (and councils happily fine people who besmirch the recycling and dumping rules). Additionally, councils charge for parking and fine motorists hither and thither for all manner of rule infringements.

How many more taxes are we to endure before we tell Nanny and our EU overlords to fuck off?
 

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Nanny Hates The Sun

I see that our old friends from Nice (the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) have yet again issued a warning about sun tanning.

This time they say that there is no healthy way to get a natural tan, and that we should stay out of the sunlight. However, they then go on to say that we should avoid vitamin D deficiency and that sitting in the sun shielded by a window won't do the job of building up vitamin D.

As ever with Nanny and Nice, her one size fits all advice isn't worth the paper it is printed upon. In the UK, as we know, the number of sunny days per annum are somewhat "limited". Advice such as this merely produces hysterical media headlines, and a sigh from the rest of the population who will inevitably ignore the advice.

Doubtless in a few months Nice will issue a directive telling us that we are in danger of rickets etc because of vitamin D deficiencies!

Just ignore the advice, and use your common sense when outside.

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#CamilaGate

As per the Telegraph:

"Alleway wasn’t especially keen to expose her subject as paranoid, narcissistic, belligerent, manipulative, self-pitying, evasive, irresponsible and needy. But Batmanghelidjh didn’t give her much other material to work with. A distressed voice behind the camera asked ever more journalistic questions about huge sums squandered on a private swimming pool, taxis, not to mention the money stuffed into brown envelopes so Kids Company clients could allegedly pay their drug dealers."

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Prats of The Week - Birmingham City Council

Kudos to Birmingham City Council for demonstrating some first class prattery.

The council, for reasons best known to itself, has banned a group of amateur historians from taking pictures of the city's historic graves unless they apply in writing for permission on a ‘case by case’ basis.

Members of the Jewellery Quarter Research Trust in Birmingham had been compiling an online database of the many famous, and not so famous, people buried in the historic Warstone Lane and Key Hill Cemeteries.

The voluntary group’s website contains a database with lists of graves and in some cases biographies, obituaries and photographs or portraits of the deceased.

There is also a Google Street View-style 360-degree photographic tour of the cemeteries.

However, they have now been banned from taking photos of each gravestone unless they apply in writing for permission on a ‘case by case’ basis.

For why?

Here is a spokesman from the council explaining to ITV the council's "rationale":

"Permission for this request was declined on the basis that once this information is held by a third party then the council will have no control over how it may be used in future, without a formal agreement in place.

We have not asked for any existing photographs to be removed from the Jewellery Quarter Research Trust’s website. We have offered to work with the trust on a case-by-case basis and have advised them that a formal agreement will be required if they wish to photograph all memorials at both cemeteries."

What concern is to the council what people do with photographs of gravestones?

Is it now forbidden to take photographs of gravestones?

Birmingham City Council, well deserving Prats of The Week!

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Cecil Rhodes

I am gemused to see that Oriel College Oxford has decided to ignore the spoilt, ignorant brats who want the statue of Cecil Rhodes torn down.

It is a pity that the college allowed this nonsense to drag on for so long.

My advice to leader of the rabble, who seems so incensed about Rhodes, is that if he is so incensed about Rhodes he should refund the scholarship funds that he receives as a Rhodes Scholar!

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A Question of Governance - Auntie Castigated

Loyal readers know that I have been less than impressed with the Kids Company, and the clowns that were allegedly "in charge" of that clusterfuck of an organisation.

I am pleased to see that the Commons Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (PACAC) have given that failed organisation, and its "leaders" a well deserved kicking.

Unsurprisingly the clown in chief, Camila Batmanghelidjh, denies everything and is quoted by the BBC saying that the report "is a product of bias and rumour".

Disregarding her delusions, the PACAC report also gives Yentob and Auntie a kicking too (as per this extract):

House of Commons conclusion on #kidscompany trustee #Yentob damming https://t.co/RRF5YGamZc pic.twitter.com/dWTupNnCIO

— Adam Bates (@AdamBates_D6) February 1, 2016

Auntie had better watch out, PACAC may well go after her next!

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