Labour.org.uk (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Labour’s Health Secretary Alan Johnson has called for a national movement to tackle the growing problem of obesity. In a major speech on public health Alan Johnson outlined the public health implications of the obesity epidemic and argues that...
The Lone Voice (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Health Secretary Alan Johnson today called for an end to stigmatising the obese. The Cabinet minister warned that 'vilifying' fat people will not make them lose weight or solve Britain's obesity 'epidemic'. Instead, Mr Johnson proposed a national campaign tackling unhealthy lifestyles. **Another national campaign, wow! How do New Labour ever think these ideas up? Like all the others...
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Wearing sunglasses and a sharp suit, Alan Johnson looked more like a Blues Brother than a minister as he arrived at Downing Street yesterday.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Alan Johnson: It's no good just haranguing people, as David Cameron would, that they're fat and need to shape up. Obesity is a social problem that demands social solutions
Evening Standard (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Wearing sunglasses and a sharp suit, Alan Johnson looked more like a Blues Brother than a minister as he arrived at Downing Street yesterday.
Labourhome (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
"Reading David Cameron’s Glasgow speech, I was struck not by how much the Tories have changed, but by how little. He delivered Tebbit’s “Get on your bike” speech, refined by PR experts. Chingford meets Notting Hill", says Health Secretary in Fabian speech . Johnson says that "We reject both the “nanny state,” which polices shopping trolleys and institutes exercise regimes and the neglectful...
Blogger News Network (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
(London, UK) Mrs Lash Wilson, mother of 16 year old James Wilson who went missing for 5 days is calling on the Secretary of State for Health, Rt.Hon.Alan Johnson to launch an urgent inquiry as to how Goodmayes Hospital in Essex allowed a 16 year old boy with autism out to the shops unsupervised. Mrs [...]
Ph articles (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
The freedom from disease secretary is to warn that "vilifying the extremely fat doesn't make people change their behaviour". In a Fabian Society speech Alan Johnson will instead say he wants a "national change" with profession, councils and the media all helping tackle obesity. He will call for "a fundamental make different in the fashion we live our lives". His comments are inner reality...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Health Secretary Alan Johnson will tonight call for a national movement to tackle the growing problem of obesity. In a major speech on public health the Secretary of State for Health will outline the public health implications of the obesity epidemic and argue that our strategy to combat obesity will only succeed if every part of our society recognises the problem and joins together to...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
The specifics of the Government-led campaign, called Change4Life and being launched in the autumn, will be worked out in the next few months. Mr Johnson will claim that the Government has rejected both the “nanny state” approach — policing shopping trolleys and exercise regimes — and the “neglectful state”, which wipes its hands of the problem.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Alan Johnson calls for a "national movement" to tackle obesity and warns against "vilifying the extremely fat".
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
The Health Secretary is to plead with the British public not to vilify the obese.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Obesity is the biggest health challenge facing the country, says the health secretary. Photograph: Dave ThompsonObese people should not be hectored and lectured to lose weight, the health secretary, , is to warn today.In a speech later today, Johnson will say that pressuring fat people to adopt healthier lifestyles is counterproductive. His speech at the Fabian Society tonight is seen as a response...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Alan Johnson, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio Jul. 25--Niki Schwartz, the Cleveland lawyer who helped negotiate a peaceful end to the 1993 Lucasville prison riot, will mediate a settlement of two sexual-harassment cases in the attorney general's office. Sessions will begin Aug.
The UK Daily Pundit (Free subscription) | yesterday
The scenario goes something like this. Brown's most senior cabinet colleagues implore him to stand down. Brown refuses. Alan Johnson resigns from the cabinet. In an act of defiance Brown calls a general election. Fantasy politics? Perhaps. But no more fantastical than last night's result. Brown now has two choices: Stand down or call a general election. The longer he stays the more damage...
