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This week, office kitchen

Colleague: How do you take your coffee?

Me: Black. With no sugar. Just like my future.

Sometimes I say things that you shouldn’t say at work.

This week I am going to see The Chemical Brothers at Brixton Academy. I am really looking forward to it because they rock. I don’t know what Mr and Mrs Chemical were feeding them when they were boys, but it seemed to do the trick.

It’ll probably be something Gordon Brown will pick up and then make compulsory for all parents, or the government will just decide they know best and put it in our bread.

“Bake your own? Fuck you, we’ll put it in wheat. We’ll spray the crops. We know what’s best.”

That’s not democracy. That’s voting for someone who then decides how you should bring up your family. Market forces have led the healthy food movement, not the government. Consumerism is people power on a daily basis. Voting is just something you do every few years. The role of the government is to tax me, fight wars, lock up the bad guys and make sure everyone is educated, safe, healthy and prosperous. We will do the rest.

I don’t get much involved in politics on this site, but I really don’t like the government getting involved in grass-roots parenting. If they really want to look after my kids, they wouldn’t build another runway at Heathrow and they would get proper sport back into schools.

I’m pushing the boat out tomorrow with another video post. It’s nice to see the comments filling up too, and to have new people writing in. The feedback always gets me thinking and often what comes out is the kernel of another post.

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