Fat chance they will understand

THEY just don’t get it, do they? Legislation and the nanny state have never been the key to altering human behaviour.

There is now a thoroughly daft proposal to impose calorie limits on supermarket foods and restaurant dishes in an effort to combat obesity.

The only way to combat obesity is to make it as socially unacceptable as smoking and to raise travel and health insurance charges for the unhealthily fat.

Trying to regulate what is on the plate is a worse joke than any Christmas cracker ever produced.

Let us look at just one detail of this lunatic suggestion: the limitation of a main course in a restaurant to 951 calories.

Does it not occur to the dunderheads that if you do not feel full after your main course you are far more likely to order a dessert? A SURVEY shows that millennials comprise the generation most likely to be disappointed with a Christmas gift. Really?

Or is it that we oldies are just too mannerly to say so? Or too long in the tooth to expect perfection? Or more likely to say “Bah, humbug!” to the whole spendfest? A SMALL incident recently told me how much times have changed. I was walking to the theatre from my digs when I noticed a jacket on a bench.

At first I just carried on but then reflected that whoever had left it there might have also left a wallet or credit card in a pocket so I went back and checked it out. It was still