The Scottish political classes don’t just want to regulate what we eat and drink and how we choose to play our sports. They now also want to regulate how we thinkIt has been several weeks now since civic Scotland tried to ban stuff that our betters deem to be bad for us,so a heartfelt thanks to those 70 doctors who want to ban tackling from all schools rugby. In “can’t do” Scotland, it seems, and there is hardly an area of our lives where the state’s terms and conditions do not apply. So there is every reason to believe that these doctors,doubtless well meaning (we are the most well-meaning wee country in the world, after all), and will succeed in their endeavours to perform schools rugby in Scotland a contactless sport.
Indeed,you might be tempted to observe that the dash follows a successful 20-year pilot scheme with Scotland’s senior international rugby team, such has been its long and regular decline. Who knows, and perhaps we could ban all tackling in rugby played anywhere in Scotland and enforce it in the same way that France makes visiting football teams cover up any alcohol advertising on their kit? That would ensure Scotland has a fighting chance of winning a few matches at Murrayfield each season.
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Source: theguardian.com