One of the first rules of political power is to create a bogey-man (BM).  As we all fear the BM, we're relieved when our political leaders are prepared to stand up to said BM, even if it means removing our civil liberties.  After all, it's for our own good. Drug companies do something similar, although they call this object of ...

Governments are good at wasting our money.  After all, that’s their job. But the enormous amount of money that is being spent on avian flu vaccines for key public workers has to be up there as one of the most wasteful around. The UK government last week committed a further £155m of public money on a new vaccine that ...