Selective Legislation

The carrying of knives is banned in UK schools. Sounds fair enough to me. No one wants to be cut or stabbed.

You will have to excuse my cynicism in commenting on Wrekin MP Mark Pritchard who told the House of Commons that in introducing legislation allowing schools and further education establishments to search pupils and students for knives "It is important that communities are not offended."

"Does my hon. Friend agree that the Government also need to consider religious dress and that they should be sensitive to those who wear religious dress to school? Given that they have tabled the new clause, which relates to higher education, is not it the case that we now have a new problem of adults who carry religious knives? That is a sign of adulthood in Sikh communities such as mine in Shropshire. It is important that those communities are not offended and that the Government realise that Sikh male adulthood includes carrying ceremonial knives.
Hansard."

Hope you don't mind me saying this Mark Pritchard but I would prefer that someone is offended rather than that someone is stabbed.

24 hour drinking

The introduction of 24 hour drinking in the UK next week won't bother the inhabitants of numbers 10 and 11 Downing Street at all.

Their local pub, The Red Lion, which is opposite the end of Downing Street, applied for a licence in August to allow it to serve alcohol until 1.00am on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays and until midnight on Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. The pub also applied for a licence for live music, karaoke and dancing. Guess what. The application was rejected because granting it might cause a nuisance in the neighborhood.

It all sounds like selective legislation to me.

It's a man thing

As a matter of fact mine is quite large now. I expect it to get even larger.