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The higher you fly ...
Big fuss about Charles Kennedy's 'drink problem'. Spices up politics.
His admission yesterday shows that he was deceitful and lacked
discipline; hardly suitable attributes for a parliamentary party
leader. Why did he drink heavily in the first place? I doubt anyone
forced him to do so. Some have tried to excuse it. 'What does one do in
Westminster with all those long hours but drink?' 'It is a stressful
job with few opportunities for more healthy ways to relax.' Read a
book, magazine, newspaper; drink tea, coffee, orange juice, water; go
for a walk. Haven't politicians brains enough to think of something?
If I heard correctly today, alcohol in the Houses of P is subsidised.
Well, I hope it isn't. The government criticises publicans for holding
happy hours during which they sell alcohol cheaply.
Chas Kennedy said in the past when asked about his health that he was
trying to follow his doctor's advice to stop smoking. Why did he need
advice from his doctor? Wasn't he old enough and sensible enough to
decide for himself? The hazards of smoking have been known since the
fifties.
Alcohol is a very necessary article ... It enables Parliament to do
things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the
morning.
George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara 1907
Drunkeness is nothing but voluntary madness
Seneca (c. 5 - 65)
Thought for the day
There has to be a lesson here for all leaders. Secure your exit
strategy and do it in good time. There is no need to let it all end
shabbily. Yet remarkably few know when to go. There is always the
delusion of personal indispensability, always the belief that there is
more to be done before it's time to go.
Polly Toynbee The Guardian 6 January 2006
You are what you eat (again)
There was yet another programme on telly about fat people. Plenty of
them about. The Diet Doctors. Two thin women, one of whom wore a
stethoscope round her neck all the time - to give an air of
authenticity no doubt. The fat woman featured (aged 37) ate little but
ready-meals heated in a microwave. What expense. A fit woman who ate
healthily acted as a guinea pig and ate what the other normally ate for
two weeks. She suffered; she gained weight, became lethargic and
struggled to last the course.
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