Playing on these kinds of thing made me the man I am today. I broke all my teeth, lost an arm and both eyes, but those days were the happiest of my life.

100% spot on there DM and I bet nowdays you wouldn't be allowed to take photographs showing young girls knickers like the example in your article.What's the World coming to?
- tancred hesmondwhyte, tardebigge, england., 19/4/2012 1:03

Incidentally, is this comment (the third best-rated) meant to be taken seriously?

He's on the side of the angels.

https://twitter.com/#!/tancredhesmondw

Then an amazing thing happened: an outbreak of common sense. The Thames authorities, the pageant organisers and the skippers sat round a table, talked it through. To their credit, the river authorities were prepared to listen to people who knew what they were doing. The skippers, in turn, acknowledged that packing the Thames with 1,000 boats is not without exceptional risks.

The result: an easing of the restrictions. The skippers sailed away in high spirits.

There was a similar result last month for the team who want to salute the Queen in a waka, a Maori war canoe. Initially, the fluorescent bib brigade sucked on their pencils and shook their heads. This mighty dugout with its strapping Kiwi crew might be fine in a Pacific swell but it would be too risky to chance an afternoon on the Thames.

Once again, though, the pageant organisers sat down with the authorities and the ban was reversed. Good sense had prevailed.

Remember the Marchioness? The Dunkirk little ship that was run down in the Thames in 1989 with the loss of 51 lives. What wrong with not wanting to risk a similar disaster during the Jubilee celebrations? Or at any time.

- Alfred, UK, 23/4/2012 10:11

School health and safety guidelines slashed from 150 pages under Labour to just eight in Coalition red tape purge

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... purge.html


When the first middle-class, white kids start dying in accidents, the Mail will be out looking for scapegoats.