Feb
15
An English Parliament?
ByAw, they went and ruined all my fun. The headline on Page 8 of my New York Times today says English Ban Indoor Smoking. But some killjoy has gone and changed the online version to the more correct British Ban Indoor Smoking…
5 Comments
February 15th, 2006 at 10:58 am
It should be spelled Englishban.
February 15th, 2006 at 2:08 pm
I might be missing some irony here but the first version is actually correct. MP’s yesterday representing the whole of the United Kingdom voted to ban smoking in pubs and clubs in England. So yes, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish MP’s also voted on this England only issue.
So what did I miss?
February 15th, 2006 at 2:54 pm
Andy, I did mull this one over myself but the original headline suggests that English MPS voted to ban indoor smoking: “English Ban Indoor Smoking.”
Hence the change to “British Ban Indoor Smoking” since it is the British who have banned indoor smoking in England.
Although it would have been correct if the headline had been “English Ban ON Indoor Smoking”.
February 15th, 2006 at 3:13 pm
Yes I read it again and then realised what you meant but it was too late!
It would be nice if you could raise some awareness over there of our democratic inequalities. That nice Mr Bush wants to spread democracy around the world – perhaps he could begin with England…
February 16th, 2006 at 11:27 am
I say we need a Yorkshire assembly! Free Yorkshire from the tyranny of Whitehall!