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Recently Tried in the Court of Public Opinion

Prerogative v Westminster: On Follicles, Futility, and the Fetish of Control


⟡ The Hair Addendum ⟡

Filed: 27 August 2025
Reference Code: SWANK-HAIR-AUTONOMY-2025
PDF Filename: 2025-08-27_SWANK_Addendum_Prerogative_HairAutonomy.pdf
Summary: Prerogative (13) requires “formal permission” to cut his hair, yet no permission is sought before endangering his health, disrupting his education, or exposing him to the street.

I. What Happened

The Local Authority has decreed that Prerogative (13) must secure his mother’s written sanction before trimming his own hair. This spectacle of micro-regulation stands in grotesque contrast to the Authority’s laissez-faire negligence in matters of health, safety, and education.

II. What the Addendum Establishes

  • That a child may not wield scissors over his fringe without parental decree, yet may be compelled into infection-ridden classrooms without medical clearance.

  • That bureaucracy concerns itself with appearances (literally) while disregarding lungs, dignity, and developmental needs.

  • That the Authority treats autonomy as a luxury, not a right.

III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because the inversion is too exquisite to ignore: hair is regulated, health is neglected. When safeguarding becomes an exercise in cosmetic control, the absurdity achieves legal relevance.

IV. Violations

  • Children Act 1989, s.22(3)(a): Welfare abandoned to trivia.

  • Equality Act 2010: Autonomy and dignity disregarded.

  • Article 8 ECHR: Private life whittled down to a haircut.

  • Article 3 ECHR: Infantilisation as degrading treatment.

  • Bromley (11th Ed., p. 640): Safeguarding powers are not playthings for paternalistic impulses.

V. SWANK’s Position

Prerogative does not require a tribunal of adults to decide if he may cut his own hair. What he requires — and what the law demands — is safeguarding that protects his health, education, and safety. The fixation on follicles is an emblem of institutional incompetence, and it is now permanently filed.

Filed by:
✒️ Polly Chromatic
Founder & Director, SWANK London Ltd.

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