Blizzards and bluster

Anyone who has read my other blogs or articles on the website will know me as a highly vociferous critic of what has become known as "health and safety gone mad". They will also know, therefore, that I have largely concluded that it's not the rules that are wrong, it's the way they are being interpreted by lazy, arse covering bureaucrats and church committees.

These people are bereft of intelligence or the ability to use creative options for safety. They shy away from what I believe is a duty to understand and constructively influence human behaviour, instead taking the lazy options to ban and prohibit. I also think for many of them, they experience cruel joy out of restricting others because it validates their empty little lives.

So my response to today's topic may surprise you. It's all about snow and ice, Whitehall and misplaced bluster.

You see, during the recent "Big Freeze" in the UK,