Completely Conkers!: What Drives You Nuts about Modern Britain

Who would live in a country where no child is allowed to win a race on sports day and you can lose your job for forwarding an 'Irish joke' email? About 60 million Britons, that's who!  This laugh-out-loud collection of ludicrous laws, political correctness gone mad, moneywasting council schemes, and ridiculous red tape reveals how trapeze artists were told by insurers to wear hard hats in accordance with the European Union's Temporary Work at Heights directive, how a career criminal was compensated £248,000, after falling in the shower, including a substantial amount 'for lost earnings' and how a phone contractor was not qualified to dig a six-inch-deep trench because he did not have 'underground capability'.