[BITList] Philip Pullman refuses to undergo 'insulting' childsafety check - Telegraph

[Michael Feltham]

Hugh,

A thought entered my head this morning after sending the initial  
Email, does Our Leader  undergo the same vetting before he does his PR  
talks to school children ?  There is no difference  !

Mike
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On 16 Jul 2009, at 09:00, HUGH wrote:

Mike,

Spoiled for me by the wee bit at the end where the Home Office were  
allowed their say.  There is no possible justification for this sort  
of %$£&%$& idiocy, so what can these greasy Home Office dimwits have  
to say that would be remotely relevant to anything?  The only saving  
grace I can see is that most children are too sensible to to be taken  
in by this crap.  The human race wouldn't have survived had children  
not had a built in tendency to learn the difference between bullshit  
and commonsense. The fools who drew up these rules are the same ones  
who drew up no rules at all to halt the swine flu in its tracks in the  
UK by imposing quarantine at airports, etc.  I can still see in my  
mind a chap coming through Heathrow wearing a Mexican suntan, greeting  
all and sundry with a spray of viruses - direct from Mexico at the  
start of the outbreak.  A neighbour of our daughter came home from  
Mexico a couple of months back - no quarantine at all.  Welcome to the  
UK, pull up a chair, have a sneeze.

As an addendum to the above, not that long ago a chap who belongs to a  
UK church was asked to fill in for the usual organist, and he would  
have been delighted to do that, except that to leave his pew and  
occupy the organ seat would have entailed submitting to a check by the  
usual suspects as above.  I kid you not.

Hugh.