As If That's A State You Aren't Part Of....

A pub refused to serve a five-year-old girl apple juice in a champagne flute on New Years Eve - with the manager telling her parents it was 'not a good look'.

Celebrity doctor Renée Hoenderkamp made the request to the waiter at the Old Bull & Bush in Hampstead, north London , so that her daughter could join her husband in the celebrations at around 7pm.

However, the NHS doctor says that a manager at the gastropub told her 'it could encourage her to drink alcohol' and served it in a tumbler instead.

And this is suddenly an outrage, as if mumsie hasn't based her entire career around nanny state meddling... 

The TV presenter claimed every other child in the restaurant was 'stuck on a screen while the parents downed their champagne', believing the whole situation felt 'very judgmental and nanny state'.

Well, yes. Good job! Right? 

Dr Hoenderkamp said she would not be surprised if the 'slow virtue signalling and nanny state wokeness' displayed in the pub that night got into other places.

Where have you been, doc? It's already embedded everywhere. Thanks in no small part to, well, people like you.  

"...come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives but they'll never take our freedom!"

They'll take it anyway, from those who can't fight.

Edinburgh is now the first European capital to commit to axing meat from its menus in schools, hospitals and nursing homes.

Note, all places where those confined within them often can't leave. How brave. 

A council report said: 'Overall, the science is clear: Meat and dairy consumption must reduce to achieve climate targets.'

Then ban the sale of milk and meat in Scotland. If you can, without pitchforks and flaming torches featuring in your future. 

But you know you can't. So you'll pick on those who can't fight back. 

The move comes days before Burns Night – the centrepiece of which is haggis, traditionally made from a sheep's liver, lungs, heart and stomach.

Offal, in other words. Maybe this year they could give the sheep a rest and make it out of the innards of a bureaucrat? 

It's Like Killing Your Parents Then Demanding Clemency Because You're An Orphan...

But Megan, who has done more to turn people into this than the 'Guardian' itself? 

Britain has long had a reputation as a nation of curtain-twitchers, of course, but the pandemic has exacerbated these tendencies and lent them unearned moral authority. From the very beginning of the pandemic it has been a trope for tutting scolds to photograph strangers who are sitting in parks or queueing for coffee to shame them, without feeling the need to justify why they themselves were in the exact same space.

Which newspaper - OK, maybe the 'Independent' - has done more to enable 'tutting scolds' than this one? From the proper use of the latest terms and phrases to what you're supposed to eat and what you're not, to what TV characters you should love... 

When was it that we stopped believing, on the whole, that other people are essentially like us? By this I don’t mean believing that we all share specific traits, but rather extending the general assumption that the motivations of others are not utterly divergent from our own.

Was it when the 'Guardian' started telling us all that we were wrong and racist for not agreeing with them, perhaps, Megan? 

You Wouldn't Know 'Justice' If It Slapped You Around The Face With A Wet Haddock!

Social media users should not be allowed to post from anonymous accounts, the Victims’ Commissioner for England and Wales has said.

What?! Who on earth would say such a stu... 

Dame Vera Baird QC...

Oh. Right.  

...said tech giants such as Twitter and Facebook should not allow people to sign up without providing accurate identifiable information. It comes amid concern the practice is allowing people to abuse others online with little prospect of being identified and prosecuted.

I can post a poison pen letter that's untraceable. I can use a 'burner' phone to make threatening calls. When do you start demanding these avenues be closed down too?

And why, on any subject, should someone too dim and arrogant to scoop her dog's crap be able to shoot her mouth off and be listened to?

Dame Vera said: “I think that getting rid of anonymity is fundamental to being able to enforce the law quite obviously.”

Well, there goes all that whistleblower legislation, eh? 

“People sit at home with a funny name and say the most horrible thing, having quite a lot of pleasure because they can’t be found - that must be the point of it, mustn’t it, to do it without any comeback.”

Like politicians can, in the House? 

“It’s very unpleasant indeed and it’s imperative they be brought to justice.”

Like speeders should? 

The Nanny State Will Follow You Home...

There has been a steep rise in global online alcohol orders, which increased 40% to $17bn in 2020 and are projected to reach $40bn by 2024, according to the alcohol market research firm IWSR.

Diageo, whose brands including Guinness and Smirnoff vodka, reported a surge in online alcohol ordering when it released financial results on Thursday. Orders doubled in the UK and trebled in the US.

I'm sure there's a reason for that...something beginning with 'c', perhaps? 

Overall alcohol sales have fallen due to the enforced closure of pubs, bars and restaurants, but sales at supermarkets and online have soared.

Bingo! But...if overall sales have fallen, so what? 

Twelve of the world’s largest drinks brands will unveil the plans on Thursday, drawn up in partnership with UK retailers such as Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Asda, as well as the delivery specialist Uber Eats.

Under the agreement, staff who deliver food and drinks to the door will be trained in how to spot signs of intoxication and check ID if they suspect someone is underage.

They will be asked to refuse to deliver alcohol if need be, just as pub landlords are supposed to do if customers have had too much.

Which is fine for pubs and restaurants - their gaff, their rules, as Longrider is often wont to say.

But this isn't 'their gaff', is it? It's mine. And yours. Did you think you made the rules there?

The companies will train staff on how to prevent trouble and de-escalate conflict when customers take exception to being denied service.

No, call it what it is - being denied the thing you've paid to have delivered because some spotty youth or barely-verbal third worlder smells booze on your breath or you're stuck in the loo and you've asked your 14 year old to answer the door. 

All to satisfy...well, who, exactly? 

The tougher controls on online drinks ordering are being coordinated by the International Alliance for Responsible Drinking (IARD)...

Aha! These folks. 

Who - in addition to poking their nose into what you get up to in the privacy of your own home - have...other goals. And they aren't shy about them:

In addition, IARD members are determined to positively impact a broad range of Sustainable Development Goals, including improving environmental sustainability, contributing to economic growth, driving social responsibility and working with local communities.

Alcohol sales are just the start of this organisation's ambitions.