Every bottle of whiskeysold in the United States warns about the dangers of alcohol to pregnant women and unborn children In the UK there are no such warnings Relatively few foods carry warnings. Sitting in front of the television makes it more likely that you will become obese. And we all know that obesity is the next epidemic to hit Britain.How valuable are these warnings? Are they just the nanny state imposing its puritanical will? Or are they a good way to help people live healthier lives? Are the health warnings proportionate to the dangers? Most important, do they have any effect on how we behave?The bold warnings on cigarette packets are the most prominent example of the state trying to tell its citizens about the risks of a widely used product. A visitor from the developing world might think that the western world is a pretty dangerous place to live. Although Britain is not ravaged by malaria and malnutrition, everywhere you look there are dire warnings about the health risks of what we eat, drink and do every day. Too much fat is bad, too little exercise kills, taking hormone replacement therapy causes everything from cancer to strokes. This year, for instance, we staged the England blind football championships.That's all on the participation side. We also have a customer charter for all 92 of our clubs, which aims to improve the experience for customers with a disability.

We provide braille programmes for our key matches and have a database of regular customers which we hope to pass on to our clubs.We take our duties very seriously and I am sure there is something that we can all do to use the power of football to build a better future.. After all, the priority of the FA is to create England teams.We will use the leverage power of the England brand, the power of the FA, to drive awareness of disability sport. In the same way, 10 years ago women's football was not considered football. And 30 years ago even football on Sunday was not considered football!We now have six England disability teams, including one world-champion team: the learning disability team We have teams that will go from England to the Paralympics.

Their continued detention shames the world's most powerful nation, that claims to fight terrorism in the name of democracy, justice and human rights.. We have a simple vision at the Football Association: we want to use the power of football to build the best future for everyone. We want to encourage as many people as possible to participate in our game in whatever way suits them best. Our first task was to start to change the culture of football.

When I started in the FA, eight years ago, blind football was not considered football. It is hard to see how any civil court in the US could accept the military tribunals that have been proposed to try the remaining detainees. In the only sentence in his statement yesterday showing any trace of moral backbone, Mr Straw quoted the view of Lord Goldsmith, the Attorney General, that "the military commissions, as presently constituted, would not provide the type of process which we would afford British nationals".Yesterday's announcement is good, if belated, news for the five men and their families. Yet for the hundreds left behind it marks barely any progress towards justice. That would have meant giving the US military a deadline for bringing them to trial, which was inconvenient.It should have been obvious, however, not least from the lengths to which the military had to go to find a stateless strip of land on which to keep the prisoners, that their legal status would have to be resolved some day.For the four remaining Britons, and the many hundreds of Afghans, Pakistanis and other nationalities at Guantanamo, that status will not be resolved until a Supreme Court hearing later this year. There has been one simple issue, and that is how to render the treatment of the Guantanamo detainees compatible not just with international law but with any legal system. That four of the British prisoners continue to be held in the nowhere land of the US base on the island of Cuba proves that this issue has not yet been resolved.Nor can it be.The Guantanamo situation is a terrible indictment of George Bush as a mere politician.