The ban it brigade ride again
If you're thin you're not coming in - classy One of the things that annoys me the most is politicians who think that the criminal law is a way to solve all of society’s ills. Quite often I’m annoyed that politicians are claiming that the thing they are discussing is one of society’s ills but that’s a different story. The thing that is annoying me today is the French and Caroline Noakes MP, she heads the All Parliamentary Group on Body Image, which sounds at once both a very specific topic and yet one with a very wide reach. The French have created a criminal offence of using a thin model in a fashion show and Ms Noakes wants to introduce the same crime here. In France those caught breaking the law face up to six-months imprisonment – the reports I’ve read are unclear whether that means prison for the organiser, the model booker or the model herself. Who knows, maybe if we’re going to be really tough on crimes like this we should be imprisoning a...