No.1,002: stop making infantile lists
Down with fairytales for adults and the fertility police - read Mick Hume's columns in The Times London this week.

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Friday, 6 July 2007:
‘They may have agreed to stop frightening small children with those Madeleine McCann cinema adverts, but the rest of us still have to endure the Live Earth trailers and Friends of the Earth ads trying to scare us like little kiddies about climate change. And put up with Nanny Madonna hectoring us on how to live (the latter day equivalent of weirdo rocker Alvin Stardust’s Seventies road safety films, except arguably he looked better in skintight trousers)…’
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