Showing posts with label Noughties. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Noughties. Show all posts

Tuesday, 30 March 2010

Less Nudity Please, We’re British

The Blair Babes were hopeless at arresting the tide of permissiveness during he last 13 years, so let’s hope Cameron’s Cuties will be tougher.
The Noughties saw a massive rollout of strip-joints across Britain after Labour relaxed the planning laws in 2003, allowing lap dancing clubs to masquerade as ordinary bars.
One is now threatened in Staines High Street, though so far ways have been found to prevent them popping up in Spelthorne.
I’m not sure we need to go so far as Iceland last week, who with almost half their legislators female, have made it illegal for any business to profit from nudity by its employees.

Thursday, 31 December 2009

End of the Noughties

As the decade ends we’re one step ahead of the Americans for a change.
We British have a name for the era just past -- the Noughties -- whereas the US still can’t decide. Maybe it’s a decade they’d rather forget, and I wouldn’t blame them.
Welcome to the Teens.