nanny state

The legal age of smoking in Britain could reportedly be raised to 21 years old under a move from the nominally Conservative government.

The British government may seek to impose carbon taxes on the food industry which could see the price of meat and dairy climb even further in a bid to tackle supposedly man-made climate change.

Boris Johnson is set to launch a China-style social credit score app that will reward families based on their choices at the grocery store.

Government environmental and public health proposals could drive up the price of grocery bills for poor Britons by 11 per cent — in what would be the equivalent of their spend on fresh vegetables, according to a food industry body.

GOP lawmakers are rallying behind Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) measure to end the federal mask mandate —  which currently requires travelers to wear masks while using public transportation, including planes and trains —  demanding, “put an end to the nanny state.”

Oxfordshire is looking to become the first “smoke-free” county in England by the year 2025, with proposals to ban smoking in outdoor spaces.

Conservative MP Philip Davies has criticised the government’s “nanny state socialist” coronavirus response, after the House of Commons had voted to extend the emergency powers which gives the prime minister autonomy to pass legislation without requiring parliamentary scrutiny.

Boris, Spoiler of Summer Holidays; Calorie-Counting Nanny Statist; the Dictator. Did anyone vote for any of this in the election last year?

The formerly libertarian prime minister has imposed a raft of new restrictions in the promotion of food deemed unhealthy, treating advertisements for ‘junk food’ like nudity or violence by banning them on television before 9 pm.

One of the UK’s leading advertising executives has backed Boris Johnson’s Nanny State assault on “junk food” by pushing for a 9 pm “watershed” of advertising food deemed unhealthy.

Yesterday was ‘Super Saturday’ when English pubs opened again after three months of lockdown – but really what’s the point?

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that he has ditched his “Libertarian” stance on obesity after his bout with the Chinese coronavirus, and will reportedly pursue nanny state-style regulations in a push to get Britons “fitter”.

A law came into effect on Wednesday which automatically makes every adult in England an organ donor unless they explicitly inform the socialised National Health Service (NHS) that they object.

The sale of menthol flavoured cigarettes, menthol rolling tobacco and capsule cigarettes have been banned in the UK under an EU directive.

Targets set by Public Health England to cut the sugar in confectionary could see some sweets disappear off the shelves altogether, a think tank has warned, saying the move could constitute “the largest extension of state control over the British diet since rationing”.

For the latest grisly example of hypocrisy, “progressive” cronyism, feminist cry-bullying, and Deep State entrenchment, look no further than Britain’s Chief Medical Officer Dame Sally Davies.

2018 was the year the Bansturbators went postal… Whatever you like to eat, whatever you drink, whatever you enjoy doing in your spare time, the Bansturbators wanted to slap health warnings on it, make it more expensive or, ideally, regulate it out of existence.

Sky-high sin taxes on meat have been branded “inevitable” in Britain after a study asserted that the move could “save hundreds of thousands of lives” as well as helping stop climate change.

Restaurants and supermarkets have been told to shrink pizzas or remove toppings under “drastic” new government plans to calorie cap thousands of foods sold in the UK.

There once was a time when California was a model for the rest of the country. Decades ago, it used to be said, “As California goes, so goes the nation.”

Some ghastly National Health Service bureaucrat wants to change the recipe of Cornish pasties so that they are less Cornish, less pasty-like, and more ‘healthy’.

Ignoring the historical lessons of Prohibition, the Nanny Staters are on the march and have a whole new range of excuses for why their brand of “benign” paternalism is good for us all: alcohol, e-cigarettes, sugar, and fat are all in their sights.

Do you like the meat in your hamburgers pink in the middle? Look, I’m not judging you if you don’t. If you like your burgers tough, chewy, tasteless, sterile, then you go, girl! All I’m saying is that for those of us in Nanny State Britain who like their burgers underdone properly (ie pink in the middle) these are difficult times.

Scotland has become the first country in the world to introduce minimum alcohol prices and campaigners are pushing to replicate the law in England.

Penn State University’s 98-year old Outing Club has been banned from conducting outings. The university authorities have decided that the great outdoors is simply too fraught with risk for students.

People living in the United Kingdom are the second least free in Europe in terms of access and freedom to enjoy tobacco, alcohol, and sugary food and drink, according to a new study which records increasing regulation on such items across the continent.

Don’t eat burnt toast or fish ‘n’ chips or over crispy roast potatoes – or you may end up getting cancer, a UK government agency has warned.

Plain packaging of cigarettes, heralded as the “next giant leap” to reduce smoking, is more of a euphemism. Critics describe it as more “medical pornography”, with sometimes grotesque images of gangrenous feet, rotting teeth, and cancer-riddled lungs. But it also has unintended consequences for law and order, with the poorest and most vulnerable paying the highest price.

Although Berkeley, California claims its “soda tax” cut unhealthy purchases by 21 percent, it mostly taxes poor and exempts the high-sugared coffee treats that the upper-class crave.

Theresa May has ditched a number of key elements of the proposed anti-obesity strategy, considering them to be “nanny state” policies. Anti-sugar campaigners have reacted furiously, but anti-sugar tax campaigners have welcomed the move. A proposed ban on junk food

We’ve been watching for some time how one federal agency or another wants to take away your freedom of choice. Usually your freedom is taken from you under the guise of “public safety,” but in reality most of the time it is simply someone who wants to stick their nose in your business because they don’t like what you may like.

Over 70 doctors and medical experts sent an open letter to the British government on Wednesday calling for tackling to be banned in school rugby matches. They warn that school rugby poses a high risk of serious injury and urge

Every single film which happens to show characters smoking should be automatically given an over 18 certification, the World Heath Organisation (WHO) has demanded.   In their new report, Smoke-free Movies, published today, the international body said that 44 per cent

A European court has ruled that the Scottish government’s plan for a minimum unit price on alcohol will contravene European Union law if other tax options are available. They said the effect of the policy is “significantly to restrict the

Not content with merely educating people as to the health risks associated with tobacco, anti-smoking campaigners and politicians in Australia are considering a ban on under-25s being able to smoke, and even a rolling blanket ban. The latest front in the

A local council has granted itself the power to fine dog owners £100 if they leave home without a doggy poo bag, regardless of whether or not their dog actually fouls a public area. Dog lovers have called the rule