daily mail: actually it turns out cancer is bad after all

Having spent months arguing that a vaccine for cervical cancer would only encourage junior sluts, the Daily Mail has switched tracks to suggest the government isn't doing enough to make this wondrous drug available to all:

Hollie Anderson's mother, Lisa, paid £450 for her to have the jab privately after seeing her own mother battle against cancer.

The vaccine, Gardasil, launched in Britain last week, protects against the main viruses that cause the cancer but the Government has not yet issued guidance on which groups will be routinely immunised.

The confusion means mothers are taking their daughters to private clinics instead.

Golly, I can't possibly imagine why the public might be confused.

Could it have anything to do with the socially conservative "pro-family" campaigners who leapt at every chance to be interviewed and argue that access to the vaccine was immoral because it would encourage underage sex? Could it be the parallel pronouncements in the Scottish conservative press on behalf of the Catholic Church, perhaps? We may never know.

Heaving hypocrisy aside, the sooner the government issues guidance on immunisation and actually gets the programme started, the better.