Small-minded Bureaucracy

[poliphilo]

Does a local council have the power to stop a child posting pictures of her school dinners on her blog? The one in this story thinks it does.

The blog is politely critical, charming, responsible and constructive. It has an international readership. The girl's school is supportive. Only the Council objects.

There's a certain type of jack-in-office that hates any kind of scrutiny- and never saw an independent initiative it didn't want to squash.

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

All the Council had to do was assure the dinner ladies that their jobs were safe.

The call for their sacking came, not from the blogger, but from some idiot journalist on The Daily Record.

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

If this were happening in the States, it would be safe to assume that it was an attempt to rubbish the school lunch program in the name of privatization. Since Rupert Murdoch sets the political agendas in both our countries, it's naturally tempting to assume the worst.

For the record, I agree that the girl should not be censored. It's a free-speech issue. I just doubt that things are always as they seem at first glance.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

School meals are a big issue over here, but it's about nutrition, not privatization- at least I think it is.
The TV chef, Jamie Oliver, has been banging on for years about how we need to feed our children right.

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

You no doubt have a better feel for the issues than I do, but I don't trust the Tories.