Tag Archives: Elf ‘n’ safety

What would you do?

November 8, 2010 – 10:32 pm

If your front garden was so overgrown that the Royal Mail refused to deliver your Mail would you: A – tidy your garden, pruning the overgrown bush and removing the branch blocking your front door; or B – complain to the Royal Mail and run to the Mail screaming ‘It’s health and safety gone mad’. [...]

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How Richard Littlejohn gets paid to recycle his own crap

November 5, 2010 – 3:14 pm

Richard Littlejohn dedicates his main piece today to more ‘elf ‘n’ safety’ bans, calling it ‘a special Guy Fawkes edition of Mind How You Go’. I was going to go through the claims one-by-one, but as the first claim unraveled it become so amusing and lengthy that I don’t think I’ll bother. Instead, enjoy a [...]

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The same old stories

October 29, 2010 – 11:38 am

It has been another busy week for media disinformation on a range of their favourite topics. The Daily Mail has made more extremely misleading claims about migration, this time attacking skilled workers by implying that only 1 in 4 of them actually work in a ‘top job’. The figures in fact could only confirm that [...]

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Littlejohn making a living from making it up

October 19, 2010 – 6:51 pm

Richard Littlejohn is rather proud of the fact that he makes a living from writing about ‘elf ‘n’ safety’, presumably this is because he genuinely thinks he is performing some kind of public service by cataloging all these examples of health and safety ‘madness’. Sadly, as Tabloid Watch has posted today, he is guilty – [...]

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When is a home not a home?

October 11, 2010 – 9:52 pm

Another ‘elf ‘n’ safety’ story in the Daily Mail today in which they ‘confuse’ the communal area of sheltered accommodation with someone’s ‘home’: ‘‘Elf and safety jobsworths order OAP to take down portrait of Queen because ‘it could fall on a firefighter‘. In the first line the Mail claims that: The Queen and Prince Charles [...]

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