It’s political correctness gone mad. bloody do-gooders. nanny-state. blah blah blah.

Gavin Whenman’s realpolitik podcast highlighted this story in the Times.  The government is to step up a Risk and Regulation Advisory Council - a body for common sense to combat what it sees as the increasing “cotton-wool” approach to risk in our lives.  In itself this is not a bad idea.  One of my bugbears [...]