I suppose what prompted me to start this thread was not so much the specifics of this particular news item, but the fact that a kid going to school with a lunch box containing chocolate cake and cheese biscuits should make the national news at all. Such an 'event' would never have made the local papers ten years ago, let alone a national paper.

I'm just concerned that this sort of thing is happening all around us on a daily basis, yet nobody seems concerned at the erosion of our freedom - and I consider stopping someone eating these items just that.

Where will it end? It's enough to make me take up smoking in protest.