Blog: Stand by for the fruit police, baby
Catherine Sleep | 23 February 2004
Are veggie vouchers really the way to get the nation eating more healthily? Isn’t the bottom line really a question of personal discipline? Boris Johnson thinks so.
Enjoy this commentator’s humorous take on weakening resolve and government intervention by clicking the hyperlink below.
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