Boris loses the plot....
...this may be more suitable for Heaven or even The Circus but I dunno, the bloke was PM and some people still think he isn't a complete Fucktrumpet.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/nov/26/the-gospel-according-to-boris-johnson-its-the-churchs-fault-our-kids-are-overweight
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/nov/26/the-gospel-according-to-boris-johnson-its-the-churchs-fault-our-kids-are-overweight
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I do buy the print edition, but my computer doesn't know that!
The Guardian doesn't have a paywall. It's the John Crace politics sketch.
Really? I get taken to an article on the inews site by Iain Dale entitled "Boris Johnson is right: the Church is partly to blame for obesity crisis"
Yeah, guy whose recent weight loss is down to Ozempic complains about not being able to do the very thing that he does in print.
I saw this yesterday. The man just says anything when put on the spot.
Are you sure about that?
Or he has very little thought beyond seeking attention.
I got to read part of it and then the giant ad showed up in front of it, with no way to dismiss it.
Yet another attempt to get me to give money to this newspaper. No way Jose.
I don’t understand. You can read this without paying, as you can with all Guardian articles
'Would you say that Edward the Confessor was directly responsible for the French Revolution? If so, what would you say?'
Bugger. You figured it out. I won't get my commission now.
You'll have to help me then because I can't find an X or a "subscribe later" option on the Indy's popup.
It might be "I'll do it later"
Nope.
Well, whichever one the tinyurl link goes to I encounter a paywall.
Agreed. I get the same for the i link.
This person gets annoyed by pop ups and loses interest.
Got into it via 12' ladder. I'll do five Hail Marys later in penance.
I'm reminded of H L Mencken's comment that “For every complex problem there is a solution which is clear, simple and wrong.”
So do all of us, but you can still read without paying
But not sufficiently to not post about it.
This thread is for being annoyed that Johnson is being an utter twat again.
If you want one to whine about newspapers having popups (in the case of the Grauniad a readily dismissible one) then start yer airn.
At a more serious level, I suggest that many children are fat because parents no longer feel it is safe to allow the massive freedom to roam that my generation had.
Agreed, on both counts.
Quite why the Church of England is perceived by the egregious Boris to be at fault is hard to fathom. I just wish the wretched man would go away and shut up, but I guess it's not in his nature to do so.
The fact that children today are on average rather plumper than those of a generation ago is not exactly news. @Sighthound suggests that it's because they're kept home on the couch in safety rather than roaming the surrounding area being active, and there's an element of truth in that. It's certainly also the case that the availability and variety of fast food has increased dramatically since I was a child. Personally, I put on a load of weight when I was traveling for work, because I was eating in restaurants all the time, and so eating more food than I would eat if I was preparing my own meal (and I didn't want to waste food, and did want to get my money's worth.)
Alas! Quite apart from health issues, those children may grow up to look like Boris...
Which is in many ways tied to the decline of truly public third spaces that are safe and don't require payment.
The UK is incredibly hostile to children, new developments tend to have far less green space than older estates, park maintenance is a very low priority and library funding has been cut by between a fifth and a third. Hanging around in shopping centres gets interpreted as antisocial.
When I was a kid, I didn't play in parks. I played on waste ground where there were pit banks and the remains of pits. There were no youth clubs.
Now there is little waste ground or youth clubs, and getting to what there is means tackling an environment almost entirely oriented around getting motor vehicles moving as quickly as possible.
It is incredibly hostile to children.
Well yes, but 80 years on the Luftwaffe haven't left as many convenient bits of waste ground.
Somehow I can't imagine Boris ever had to play on waste ground.
They have. And less hostile for road users without an engine. They're unquestionably a benefit, despite the naysayers who would sacrifice all these benefits for getting where they're going a few seconds faster.
It's subtler than that. It's motornormativity - culturally driving is the normal default way to get around. Anything that impinges on that must be wrong. People who use another mode of transport when the norm would be to drive are suspect. Hence actually enforcing the law is portrayed as a "war on the motorist".