Breaking news

I was due to appear on Aljazeera this afternoon, taking part in a 30-minute discussion on the Inside Story programme. At midday however I got an email saying the item was postponed "due to breaking news in the Middle East".
What could be more important than World No Tobacco Day?

Comments

[Chris F J Cyrnik]

Just about everything!

[Free Corps]

ASH will be complaining to the Israeli Government, stealing the limelight
on their Holy of Holies day.
I was wondering why the bank holiday had been moved from Whit Monday.

Free Corps Observer

[Dave Atherton]

Alex Deane of Big Brother Watch is on the money at Conservative talking about the state's invasive questioning of our lifetyles into smoking and drinking. Surprise, surprise Alex is a speaker at the Voices Of Freedom debates.

Here is a taste.

"On their latest bout of nannyism, Big Brother Watch would say that we are entitled to have a drink when we want one. Doctors are there to heal us, and can keep their opinions about lifestyles to themselves unless they're asked – after all, we pay the tax which pays for the health service. We've got to decide what kind of society we want to live in - one in which the state tells us what to do, or one in which the state is answerable to us. I prefer the latter, and had hoped that we'd lived in such. "

http://conservativehome.blogs.com/centreright/2010/06/the-naughty-side-of-nice.html#tp