https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/09/14/the-killjoy-state/
Ask not what the NHS can do for you, but what you can do for the NHS. This appears to be the closest thing our hollow PM, Keir Starmer, has to an ideology, following yet another miserable nanny-state announcement.
Even so, it is an alarming indication of where we are headed: a killjoy state in which even adults – this stuff never, ever stops at children – are patronised, cajoled, taxed and eventually even criminalised for what we choose to inhale, eat and drink in our own time.
The logic here is slyly sinister: because of the dysfunctions and mismanagement of our healthcare system, ordinary people must have their choices curtailed. We must go without some of life’s great pleasures. As Christopher Snowdon has pithily put it, Starmer is ‘trying to reform the public, not the NHS’.
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