Telegraph attacks social workers

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by Simeon Brody

The state, aka social workers, are guilty of kidnapping children. That is the general thrust of Christopher Booker's opinion piece masquerading as a kind of news story in The Telegraph.
You can find out all you need to know by reading the first paragraph:

One of the most disturbing features of life in modern Britain has been the extraordinary powers given to social workers to seize children from their parents, too often - when those powers are abused - supported by the police and family courts.
I won't go into the article in detail and it's obviously very difficult to comment without all the information but it has been analysed very effectively over on Fighting Monsters.

However, I did find some interesting information about the author Christopher Booker on Wikipedia. Apparently, he has claimed that man-made climate change has been "disproved", that white asbestos is "chemically identical to talcum powder" and believes in intelligent design. Perhaps that shouldn't colour my opinion of this particular article but I'm afraid it just does.

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This page contains a single entry by Simeon Brody published on July 6, 2009 12:31 PM.

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