Wibble!

We’ll be bringing you a fuller update on the UK government’s response to the Royal Society nanotechnology report next week, although no one seem to have a single good thing to say about it.

The department of Trade and Industry has a special procedure for dealing with tricky or politically sensitive issues, and it goes something like this:

1. Ignore it and do nothing. If it doesn’t go away…
2. Panic, engage consultants to tell you what to do and hope it goes away in the meantime. If it doesn’t…
3. Stick your underpants on your head, push a pencil up each nostril and say “Wibble” – which is effectively what Lord Sainsbury did on Friday.

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