Tom Bailey

October 2011

A diet of anxiety

If a few people wish to eat themselves into supposedly an earlier grave, that is an individual lifestyle choice. It may not be a choice to either be applauded or celebrated, but it is the choice of the individual, and should not be micromanaged by governments or public health groups.

‘I wish the government would stop trying so hard to make my life safer’

As one panellist pointed out, less than 60 people have been killed in the UK by terrorists in the past 10 years. It is also worth noting that statistically residents of the United Kingdom were actually more likely to be harmed by terrorist attacks in the decade prior to 9/11.

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