Pearce worked for 30 years as a war and foreign correspondent and was injured when BBC Kabul correspondent. He thought he knew what dangers in the work place were, but was amazed by the health and safety dangers lurking in Britain and wrote this entertaining collection of the best stories this year. He also wrote a book about the past 10 years of function creep called Whose Side Are They On? based on his knowledge of oppressive regimes. It details the growth of the rule book and army of enforcers that is now invading the lives of ordinary Brits, introduced through the loophole of 'terrorism legislation'. I'm sure most of this is familiar to us here but I might send a copy of one or two of them to my politically correct relatives. And no I haven't been paid for the advert...