Nanny State: treading a fine line

The Press;  August 23, 2003 ;     700+ words ......find in it another manifestation of the Nanny State -- that image which former British prime...loved to conjure up, then deride. This Nanny State, as generally described, is a government...obesity. The standard complaint about the Nanny State is that it addresses many issues that...

Nanny State: How Food Fascists, Teetotaling Do-Gooders, Priggish...

Freeman;  July 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Nanny State: How Food Fascists, Teetotaling Do-Gooders, Priggish...neglected to buckle my seatbelt. For having ignored that nanny-state regulation, I was hit with a ticket. Alas, the nanny state is not confined just to traffic enforcement in my...

Hail the nanny state.(Features)

Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  October 21, 2006 ;     241 words ......health campaigners as possessing the nanny state mentality might just consider that those...such interfering busybodies with the nanny state mentality who stopped the exploitation...such pests and nosy parkers with the nanny state mentality who ensured that all children...

Freedom in the nanny state

Review - Institute of Public Affairs;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Freedom in the nanny state Louise Staley reviews Nanny State: How Food Fascists, Teetotaling Do-Gooders, Priggish...out of existence by an ever-expanding government in Nanny State: How Food Fascists, Teetotaling Do-Gooders, Priggbh...

Letter: Nanny state.(Letters)

Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  November 10, 2005 ;     49 words ......England and impose a total ban on smoking in public places. AM Alun Pugh says he is absolutely delighted as no-one in the Welsh Assembly wants to hold u p the process. So, there we have it. Wales is to become a nanny state within a nanny state!

When daddy is a nag.(the 'nanny' state, with its liberal programs, has...

U.S. News & World Report;  June 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......line between the daddy state and the nanny state? That question probably isn't keeping...Let's start by defining terms. The nanny state is the phrase conservatives have long...conservatives and centrist Democrats, the nanny state has seemingly been in retreat since...

TAS: Bacon warns against nanny state rules

AAP General News (Australia);  July 21, 1999 ;     203 words ......07-21-1999 TAS: Bacon warns against nanny state rules HOBART, July 21 AAP - Tasmanian...Australia may be regulating itself into a nanny state. In his first comment on the Productivity...the view that Australia was becoming a nanny state. "Quite often we think we can modify...

Britain Today: 'Nanny state'.(News)

The Journal (Newcastle, England);  October 23, 2007 ;     65 words ...ACTOR Ewan McGregor says Britain's nanny state could cause him to move abroad. The Trainspotting star has...CCTV cameras everywhere, congestion charge - a ludicrous nanny state. If anything drives me out of the country it will be that...

Ewan rap for nanny state UK.(News)

Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  October 23, 2007 ;     184 words ...EWAN McGregor says Britain's nanny state could drive him out of the country. The Train spotting star...CCTV cameras everywhere, congestion charge ... a ludicrous nanny state. If anything drives me out of the country, it will be that...

Hodge says nanny state is here to stay; CHILDREN'S MINISTER UNVEILS...

The Evening Standard (London, England);  November 26, 2004 ;     343 words ......Hodge defended the unsung virtues of the nanny state today as she unveiled a new plan to...of ' nimbyism' in our attitude to the nanny state. It's all right to put speed bumps outside...The Right, who relish attacks on the nanny state, are very ready to impose their moral...

Stop Letting 'Nanny State' Hover Over us

Chicago Sun-Times;  April 22, 1996 ;     700+ words ......wasn't "April Fool!"; it really was the nanny state, represented by armed force, ready to...lives? A good start to rolling back the nanny state would be juries of sensible people...fault, not the railroad's." Today the nanny state, tomorrow the police state. Let's stop...

Fed: Gillard denies Labor nanny state with groceries, fuel, grog

AAP General News (Australia);  August 10, 2008 ;     276 words ......08-10-2008 Fed: Gillard denies Labor nanny state with groceries, fuel, grog CANBERRA...federal government is encouraging a "nanny" state with its stance on groceries, petrol...she told ABC TV when asked about the nanny state. "It's one thing to wander yourself...

An uncommon gift; Literary legacies.(Thanks to the nanny state)

The Economist (US);  October 25, 2008 ;     325 words ...Thanks to the nanny state BRITISH libraries seeking original literary archives--the ore from...to Oxford on a scholarship. I benefited at every stage from the nanny state, as it is disparagingly called. It would be unimaginable now to...

Nanny State.(Features)

The People (London, England);  December 16, 2007 ;     46 words ...Byline: eamonn holmes THIS year there's been a lot of talk that Britain's turning into a Nanny State, but things are far worse in Hungary. Under new licensing laws SANTAS must be at least 5ft 7in, have a deep voice and pass an exam...

Nanny State big cheeses blamed as roll called off.

The Birmingham Post (England);  May 21, 1998 ;     303 words ...The Nanny State has been blamed for ending the centuries-old Whitsun tradition of young...for hundreds of years without stopping. But now it seems we live in a Nanny State society where people aren't allowedto d o anything risky or have fun...