"UK government ministers have ordered a wide-ranging review and pledged to consolidate or simplify the law." (Mailonline)
Employment minister Chris Grayling, who wears his briefs on his head in case of bird do-do, admitted to reporters yesterday, "I was home schooled and I never ever left my cosy little bed except for number 2s." Regressing by the syllable, he continued. "Mommy had my bedroom full of mattresses...especially the places that people said you could look straight through the walls!" Ah, I believe we call them windows, Chris. "Yes, aren't they something!" When mommy ran off with the seed of Satan, as daddy called him, then I started my rehab. Now years later, I can go upstairs and even down again without holding on... well sometimes anyway. I like doing that very, very ...," he trailed off...morphing back to the red box, government minister.
Successive governments and cotton-woolly parenting; they've all contributed to the disenfranchisement of young people from their rights of passage.
"Swallows and Amazons" must stay safely between the covers of the book; for wrestling the wrapper off a new Xbox game is now the yardstick of childhood challenge.
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Successive governments and cotton-woolly parenting; they've all contributed to the disenfranchisement of young people from their rights of passage.
"Swallows and Amazons" must stay safely between the covers of the book; for wrestling the wrapper off a new Xbox game is now the yardstick of childhood challenge.


