The very next time anyone – whether a Daily Mail writer/reader or not – says that we live in a ‘nanny state’, please refer him/her/them to the tragic demise of Amy Winehouse.
If we *truly* lived in a nanny state, Amy would have been locked up for her own safety.
And her drug-dealing friends would have been just plain locked up.
So, just to reinforce, we do not live in a ‘nanny state’ (whatever one of those is).
OK?
No nannies, perhaps, but you do have a minder or two . . . as do we. In fact, we have a minder-in-chief.
Poor Amy. She was so talented. I think we may have too much freedom sometimes, but I’m not sure I want more stringent rules either. (middle ground is so hard to determine)