The politics of public behaviour
This project is a chance to explore the tensions in the current debate between fostering a 'nanny state' and finding a response to some of the most pressing social issues of our time.
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- Morals make people fat | Guardian daily comment Argues: 'Today, common sense about diet points in the opposite direction. Nothing can be socially shaped. We're all free individuals swimming in an ocean of uncoerced choice. Yet those choices are shaped, every day, by the food industry, by the rhythm of our lives and by the architecture of the modern world, all of which induces us to snack, gobble and dash...The prescription for overweight Britain is clear: less bariatrics, more sociology; less morality, more politics.' from : duncanoleary 17th August 2007