The Nanny State Index is a league table of the worst places in the European Union to eat, drink, smoke … Continue reading “The Nanny State Index 2017”

‘Until 1914’, wrote the historian A.J.P. Taylor, ‘a sensible, law-abiding Englishmen could pass through life and hardly notice the existence … Continue reading “The Nanny State Index – whatever happened to ‘liberal Britain’”

Yesterday saw the publication of the first ever Nanny State Index. It looks at 32 criteria and 28 countries to … Continue reading “Britain is amongst the EU’s most meddlesome nanny states”