I was on a different planet with the heavenly seared scallops . . . Aside from his unfeigned delight in his good luck, and an obviously robust constitution, Livingstone's most distinctive characteristic as restaurant reviewer is his reliance as a fish-eating vegetarian on a somewhat restricted range of dishes. New Labour loyalists who fear that years of treacherous sniping lie ahead, should perhaps take heart that Ken dotes on Italian cuisine as much as the next cabinet minister, never tiring of garlic or truffle oil. So that's another insult gone. I doubt it.
Obesity is on the way up.
Normally, one would dismiss this as just the kind of tactless, interfering twaddle that bishops are paid to produce, and still not a patch on anything Cardinal Winning has come up with lately. But this episcopal idiocy deserves some response. The job of the HFEA is to regulate medical treatment for infertile people. He adds that the church should look kindly on people whose marriages break down because one partner does not want children. The bishop is nearing the end of his term on the HFEA committee.