Nazi of the week ...

... is Tory Councillor Michael Stark, of Redbridge Council, who proposed a ban on smokers becoming foster parents.

"Mr Gaunt [the radio interviewer], who was in care as a child, tried to tone down his remarks by saying Mr Stark was a 'health Nazi' and arguing the policy could deprive children of a foster home."

Fair enough, you might think. But no ...

At the end of the show, he was forced to apologise on air and was suspended pending an investigation.

In the light of this, I think "Nazi" without qualifications was in fact a fair insult.

Lies, damn lies and statistics (4)

"Family wants plastic pen tops ban" after their teenage son choked to death on a plastic pen top.

That is a personal tragedy, but seeing as there must be hundreds of millions of plastic pen tops in this country, and this is the first time in ages that they have killed somebody, I think that we as a society will have to live with that risk.

Hey, 75 children are killed by their parents every year and a further 150 children are killed in car crashes/collisions.

Shall we ban parents and cars as well?