Nanny sometimes knows best!

One of the reasons for leaving the UK that we often find given by our compatriots is to get away from "the nanny state", sometimes rephrased as "political correctness gone mad". I thought of this when I read yesterday that in 2008 in Spain, 261 construction workers died in accidents at work, of whom 50 were in Andalucia. Although I admit that we are the kind of people who check our smoke alarm every time the Julie Walters advert urging us to do this appears, it is only slightly comforting to me (and, I should have thought not at all comforting to the 261 families affected) that this is a 6% drop on the 2007 figures.