Simon Jenkins launched a blistering attack on Britain’s Health and Safety Executive yesterday, accusing it of being the Guantanamo Bay of defensive administration.

The HSE raised his ire by overreacting dramatically to a freak accident in which an eight year old boy was killed by a falling tree at a National Trust property in Cheshire, Dunham Massey. The HSE is stupidly and vindictively pursuing a prosecution against the trust, even though the police said there was no case to answer. Jenkins calls the HSE ‘the stormtroopers of health and safety fascism’.   

Worth reading. If the HSE gets its way, baths will be banned to save us from drowning and we’ll have to wear crash helmets in our cars and when using stairs. How I’ve survived to 43 is little short of a miracle in this risk-infested life!