Irish Examiner View: Fat-headed calories proposals

It seems an accepted truth of our time that the line between personal responsibility and the world around us and all of the known-known tripwires, unknown-unknown ones too, in it, has become absolutely blurred.

So blurred in fact that there seems a growing expectation that the the State should be a permanent, never-sleeping, 24/7 nanny looking after our every need, neutralising every last threat that might dare intrude in our lives.