I must say, I'm struggling to understand the source of your animus. I'm simply suggesting that shifting priority from treatment to prevention might be politically difficult when so many appear to see obesity as a moral rather than policy failing. Perhaps political influence on healthcare services is less of a concern where you are.

How much cheaper would it be if we fixed this when the fat person is in their 30s than treating diabetes, heart disease, and joint breakdown in their 60s?

Enormously, but doing so is politically toxic. Interventions are expensive and complicated, and ask awkward questions about agency, responsibility and society. Good luck to anyone wanting to make those kinds of nuanced arguments in this day and age.

It's worse than raptors, it's teenagers...

This country is an absolute and irredeemable shambles. The Conservative party recently spent weeks engaged in a leadership contest and found Liz Truss, a person so badly out of her depth that within a week of her effective premiership, set the nations finances on fire.

Having then selected the least appropriate prime minister we've arguably ever had, they now want to install the loser of said contest. Jesus wept. The entire nation is now effectively held hostage by the collective mental breakdown of the 'natural party of government'. With no means to force a general election, us mug punters have to wait two years for an election while whichever ineffectual toad 'wins' their unwanted unpopularity contest clock watches until the bell tolls for their grotesque parody leadership. The mother of parliaments. What a joke.

Our entire economy is built on ever rising house prices and infinitesimal interest rates. If we build enough houses, house prices go down. People who own houses vote more than those that don't. People who own houses also vote for those who prevent that happening. Thus, complex planning rules suit everyone. Except, of course, those who don't own houses.

Pretty soon you'll be lucky if your high-gain antenna points anywhere...

I guess it depends what sanctions are applied. There seems little point in being megarich if you're banned from enjoying the trappings that it brings, be that football teams, superyachts or prestigious private schools for your children.

The only ones listed I've heard of are Sophia Nomvete and Lenny Henry. Compared to the cast of GoT when it launched, it's fairly anonymous.

At least you got to see 90...

Well. It's not like those two things are mutually exclusive.

File this alongside the bridge to Ireland and the robotic army under 'things that'll never happen'. I dunno. It feels like it's only a matter of time until we're building an escalator to nowhere.

That's Baroness Harding who went to school with David Cameron and was CEO of TalkTalk during one of the UKs largest and most damaging data breaches. I imagine the first part is what got her the job rather than the second.

The UKs response to coronavirus has been an object lesson in incompetence in which every single aspect of their management has been an embarrassing shambles. They've had to be dragged kicking and screaming toward constructive choices after exhausting every other bad option under the guise of following the science. It's an absolute disaster, of which, this debacle is just the latest.

So just abolish the police. What are they for if responsibility for policing lies directly on the citizen?

Off with his head!