Just when I'd despaired of ever hearing anything in the mass media but the standard attacks on health and safety as the fount of all nannying and pointless rules, I caught the following at the weekend on BBC Radio 4''s topical comedy offering, The Now Show, in a discussion about how much we like to knock modern Christmas.
Hugh Dennis: "On Tuesday there was a particularly fine example of this in The Daily Express which published a survey showing that 'age-old traditions like slipping a silver sixpence in the pudding or roasting chestnuts on a roaring log fire are slowly being phased out amid health and safety fears'."
Steve Punt: "That's right, health and safety fears. Nothing to do with people not having log fires, and sixpences not having existed since 1971."
It's not much, but it's a start.
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