An advertising poster reading “I love JK Rowling” at Waverley, Edinburgh’s main railway station , has been removed for being too “political” and potentially offensive.
Network Rail confirmed that the digital advertisement had been taken down because it breached its policy by promoting a political viewpoint.
Expressing an opinion these days is frowned upon!
Restaurateur Henry Dimbleby (who by happenstance is now in charge of the very Orwellian sounding National Food Strategy) has, for reasons best known to himself, something of a "bugbear" about Percy Pigs (sweets).
He finds it "egregious" that food products such as Percy Pigs claim to be natural etc etc. Thus he has decided to become the nation's Fussbucket in Chief.
The Guardian quotes him:
“I just think that is not right. I think that is genuinely misleading
One of the most egregious sins of the modern food industry is its habit of clothing itself, and its products, in false virtue … ‘No artificial colours or artificial flavourings’ trills the packaging for Percy Pig, the ‘soft gums made with fruit juice’… How many parents take the time to check the ingredients list? If they did, they might (assuming they know how ingredient lists work) be agog to find that the three largest ingredients by weight are glucose syrup, sugar and glucose-fructose-syrup."
Well that's lovely, but the ingredients are printed clearly on the product, and until Nanny actually starts wiping our arse for us maybe we should let people make their own decisions eh?
It's a sweet, they are not meant to be nutritious!
The latest ONS date-of-death update confirms why the daily PHE all settings series should be ignored till their investigation is finished.
— David Paton (@cricketwyvern) July 28, 2020
ONS has 30 deaths for 14 Jul (later dates likely to be updated) whilst PHE has 68.
The PHE series underestimates the decline in deaths. pic.twitter.com/xMNwaPKXkv
"The cost of ill-health in society...is an economic conversation. Having a fitter, healthier more agile Britain is absolutely more profitable."
— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) July 27, 2020
Chef Jamie Oliver says the government's crackdown on junk food adverts could be a pivotal moment in tackling obesity. pic.twitter.com/HRPQXzH9Ts
www.nannyknowsbest.com is brought to you by www.kenfrost.com "The Living Brand"UK's head of state is first-born descendant of each generation of all-white senior royals. Black & Asian people are therefore excluded from being head of state for foreseeable future. This is institutional racism https://t.co/TaDCNxqSmE #BlackLivesMatter #blmuk @GreenJennyJones pic.twitter.com/IGxRNT0KaN
— Peter Tatchell (@PeterTatchell) July 22, 2020
A young offender stabbed another teenager to death at Hillingdon Council's offices while on a knife awareness course, a court has heard.
The 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, knifed Hakim Sillah, 18, twice in the chest in a "rapid sequence of infliction" at Hillingdon Civic Centre, in Uxbridge, last November.
Michelle Nelson QC, prosecuting, said: "There is a cruel irony in this case that Hakim Sillah was stabbed while he was attending a weapons awareness training course.
"The course was for young offenders, those aged under 18 with a previous offence related to weapons."
Ms Nelson said that all participants had been risk assessed before the session, which was run by the Youth Offending Teams (YOTS), and that "those classified as high risk were precluded from attending".
"Both the young men must have been risk assessed, but the sad reality is that both attended that course carrying knives," she said.
As per the BBC no less:
"Several studies have shown that people infected with Covid-19 tend to have T cells that can target the virus, regardless of whether they have experienced symptoms. So far, so normal. But scientists have also recently discovered that some people can test negative for antibodies against Covid-19 and positive for T cells that can identify the virus. This has led to suspicions that some level of immunity against the disease might be twice as common as was previously thought.
Most bizarrely of all, when researchers tested blood samples taken years before the pandemic started, they found T cells which were specifically tailored to detect proteins on the surface of Covid-19. This suggests that some people already had a pre-existing degree of resistance against the virus before it ever infected a human. And it appears to be surprisingly prevalent: 40-60% of unexposed individuals had these cells."
www.nannyknowsbest.com is brought to you by www.kenfrost.com "The Living Brand"BREAKING ....
— Joe Murphy (@JoeMurphyLondon) July 17, 2020
Matt Hancock calling "urgent review" into a staggering fiasco at Public Health England.
They are counting people who die of natural causes as coronavirus deaths if they tested positive at any time previously.
Not clear how many deaths were recorded in this way
I was waiting for this. The day has arrived. The dog was jet black and was called by the Latin name for black. Nothing racist at all > Dambusters dog: Headstone replaced to remove racist name https://t.co/Sq72Ujh6QF
— (((Dominic Farrell))) (@DominicFarrell) July 17, 2020
Prof @carlheneghan and Statistician, @oke_jason help explain why there is a disparity between ONS death data and PHE daily updates: https://t.co/wxmoTQq3AS#cebm #EvidenceCOVID #COVIDresearch
— CEBM (@CebmOxford) July 15, 2020
🇿🇦 South Africa has imposed a ban on liquor sales again to reduce alcohol-related hospital admissions as #Covid19 cases surge.
— Bloomberg QuickTake (@QuickTake) July 13, 2020
More @bbgafrica: https://t.co/pSxtln1EMR pic.twitter.com/A6C8bnZqdc
Met Police apologises to British sprinter Bianca Williams over stop-and-search https://t.co/wTegkA7cc4
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) July 8, 2020
We’re urgently auditing statues and the names of buildings and streets in Wales.
— Mark Drakeford (@fmwales) July 6, 2020
This is not about rewriting the past – it is about reflecting it with the justice it deserves to create a richer and more informed relationship with our history.https://t.co/LVHdt5icb7
Imagine waking up to your frontdoor being kicked in by the police, getting dragged downstairs, handcuffed and taken outside.
— Lewis Feilder (@LewisFeilder) July 3, 2020
And there, staring daggers at you, is the Home Secretary herself. pic.twitter.com/9ebxB5t2f4
Apparently, when the Premier League plastered ‘Black Lives Matter’ everywhere, it was unaware that there was a political organisation of the same name that had a broader agenda. https://t.co/EcUvZ5obOD
— Christopher Snowdon (@cjsnowdon) June 30, 2020
www.nannyknowsbest.com is brought to you by www.kenfrost.com "The Living Brand"Virtue signalling never ends well! Just ask the England team 1938.. https://t.co/U92Cg1Q4z4 pic.twitter.com/qPwXaM3at6
— Ken Frost (@ken_frost) June 18, 2020
