Cow'rin, tim'rous beasties

The evidence of the grossly intrusive statism that Brits tamely put up with is overwhelming. Big Brother lists examples almost daily, as today with Coventry school finds a new reason to victimise parents, where we learn that parents are being stopped from watching their children play sport because they place undue "pressure" by standing on the sidelines. Spiked also highlights a couple:

Hands off our testicles reports on two men found guilty of providing sperm without a licence from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. "These fresh sperm delivery services just fill me with horror. There is no way on earth that they can guarantee that [the sperm] is infection-free", one expert told the Telegraph.

Would Those Who Know Better also like us to require a licence before we are allowed to share sperm in the traditional way? Perhaps we shouldn’t give them ideas – their answer to that question would almost certainly be ‘yes’.

Who's really scaring the girls? slams a recent publication Because I Am A Girl by Plan UK for grossly overstating the specific risk to girls in Britain's cities, relating it to the fact that "no crime is too tragic, no trend too exaggerated, for a politician not to take the opportunity to posture as our protector, our guardian."

Of course the fact that the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority and Plan UK are both quangos, like the rest of them trying to save themselves from the promised "bonfire", might have something to do with it.