The voice of the nation

According to the press, the BBC spends hundreds of thousands of pounds sending its staff on training courses with regard to diversity, health and safety and similar modern obsessions. What a pity that they don't spend a few hundred and send them on an EIA course.

I draw your attention to the story "Disability rights ruling expected" and especially the comment: "When it was first announced in 2006 that her case would be heard by the European Court [of Justice] Ms Coleman said she was overjoyed. Since the UK instituted the Human Rights Act, few cases have been referred to Europe."

And just to show that mixing up the Court of Human Rights and the ECJ isn't enough for one short story, we get a new twist on the idea of implementation (and a neat demonstration that the UK isn't part of Europe) :

"However, in this case the EU's Equal Treatment Directive's interpretation of disability discrimination is much wider than the UK's - in Europe, the person does not have to suffer from the disability themselves but could be the parent or spouse of a disabled person. "

Any spare places on that "What's in a Directive" course Eric?