International Killjoys

In a move that shows the Poland is well and truly a full member of the EU, health inspectors have decided to kill off a rather idiosyncratic service.

Barbers in bikinis pose a "health risk", according to officials in the northern Polish city of Slupsk. - The city's numerous bikini-wearing female barbers have been ordered by killjoy health inspectors to obey safety regulations and cover up while on duty.

I don’t know whether the impetus for this comes from religious sensibilities, remnants of the totalitarian past or is the product of a decade of EU convergence. Whichever it is, the Control Nazis of Brussels must be very happy with how the Poles are shaping up.