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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.

Mick Hume

Mick Hume
Columnist

Topics Politics

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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)…’

Read on….

Tuesday, 3 July 2007:

‘Among all the arrogant, petty-minded interfering bureaucracies that clutter up life in the UK, it would be hard to conceive of one that has contributed more to the sum of human misery than the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. ….’

Read on….

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