Big Brother is Watching What You Eat

There's no pleasure on earth that's worth sacrificing for the sake of an extra five years in the geriatric ward of the Sunset Old People's Home, Weston-Super-Mare.

Horace Rumpole

Minitrue Ofcom has announced that it is going to ban advertising of foods that the Party disapproves of "junk foods." The ban includes:

• All pre-school children's programmes
• All programmes on mainstream channels aimed at children
• All cable and satellite children's channels
• Programmes aimed at young people, such as music shows
• General entertainment programmes which would appeal to a "higher than average" number of under-16s.

I said that when they started going after smokers that the same rationale would soon be extended to anything else the government wanted to ban as well. Stand by for mandatory health warnings, heavy taxation on anything edible and the pathetic sight of freeborn Englishmen forced to stand out in the rain to eat their contraband beefburgers.

Ah, well. At least they've increased the choco ration. Or so they say.

Update: Spain is ahead of the curve.