We May Not Like It but Yes, We Do Need Nanny
Evening Standard - London › October 11, 2006
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CAROLINE Flint's appointment as Minister of Fitness struck many as absurd. Was she going to become a modern version of the instructor who appears on "telescreens" in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four? If, like Winston Smith, Orwell's hero, we took a rest, would we hear her voice screeching: "Smith! 6079 Smith W! Yes, you!
Bend lower, please! You can do better than that. You're not trying. Lower, please! That's better, comrade."See the full content of this document
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We May Not Like It but Yes, We Do Need Nanny
Presumably not, although you can never be sure with New Labour. But if a minister in a democracy can't compel free citizens to start jogging and stop scoffing, what's the point of her?
Her announcement yesterday that she wa...See the full content of this document
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