Wi-fi banned in Tottenham

THE BRAINLESSNESS of grass roots democracy in the UK has well demonstrated in the London hamlet of Muswell Hill.

A hack for the local rag, the Tottenham Journal, had the misfortune of having to attend a council meeting where the local councillors called for a ban on Wi-fi at their local schools.

The council wanted all wi-fi in schools to be suspended and an "open and honest debate" on the technology take place. However judging by the debate that the council had over Tetherdown School it would seem that the chances of getting an informed one are extremely unlikely.

One champion of "informed debate" was one councillor Emma Jones (Labour), Bruce Grove who claimed that "we are frying children's brains" and that she was really worried we going to "wake up in 20 years with serious problems." Some seem to have woken up with serious problems a bit early and she seems to have ignored a statistic that 70 per cent of schools are using wi-fi technology and no one's brain has been fried.

The main evidence for the councillors is a recent Panorama programme the science of which has questioned .

Emma Jones seems to have missed a fair chunk of the program as it dealt with the effects of low level radiation. It takes a lot to fry brains, even children's ones, which are best served with a nice Chianti, fffff.

The committee has recommended the council should write to all schools notifying them of their concerns and suspend wi-fi use and installation. The council is apparently forcing schools to sue something which is called "hard wired internet" which is apparently an alternative to all this baby burning wi-fi stuff. There will be no extra cash to pay for this radical technology from the council.

It seems that the children of Tottenham will just have to suffer from their parent's and councillors' hysteria and passion for bogus science. µ

L'INQ
Tottenham Journal.