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That's all very true and it's also true that exercise doesn't compensate for poor diet but that's not what you said: you said that kids don't do any less exercise than they did 40 years ago and that's demonstrably not true. To take another example, we played football in our playground every...

That's absolute twaddle. Here's one survey that shows that only 25% of kids walk to school compared to 86% in 1971 I think back to my school days and my primary school had two PE sessions a week, a dance session and compulsory games. My secondary school had the same: except no dance. How many...

That's down to Thatcher though. She made the deliberate decision to switch from a direct form of taxation to indirect taxes. So, she drastically reduced income tax (i think basic rate used to be 33% and higher rates were 70 and even 90%) but doubled VAT and increased the duty on tobacco, booze...

I think it's a great idea; we consciously cutting down on the sugar our kids consume (and it wasn't a huge amount to begin with).A sugar tax will help to concentrate minds