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On the roads, self-interest = mutual interest
In banking and consumer affairs, regulation may be necessary, because self-interest is driven by profit. On the roads, regulation is counterproductive. Why? Because self-interest = the common interest. My interest in not hitting you mirrors your interest in not hitting … Continue reading
Balls bowled
So Ed Balls is caught “speeding” (a fabricated crime if ever there was one). What beats me about incidents like this is the abject acceptance by intelligent people that they are wrong and speed limits are right. Never do they … Continue reading
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Chris Huhne
“Any element of tragedy was entirely your own fault,” said Mr Justice Sweeney. No. Huhne is the victim of an inflexible, black-and-white system that elevates regulation above intelligence. Life is about infinite shades of grey. Context is what counts, or should … Continue reading
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Relationships not rules
Discussing deficiencies in child protection services, ITN social affairs editor, Penny Marshall, said, “abused children want relationships, not rules”. You could say the same for road-users, burdened by vexatious traffic regulation. As a basis for road-user relationships, priority is nothing less than an … Continue reading
Public service? Pull the other one
In devising methods of repressing hypothetical (minority) misbehaviour on our roads, the traffic control net is spread wide. Like the wrong fish caught in a trawler’s net, good people are ensnared and brought to their knees (you, me and Chris … Continue reading
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A question of justice
If Chris Huhne’s alleged act perverts the course of justice, does non-discretionary traffic regulation pervert the cause of justice?
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Tagged cause of justice, Chris Huhne, course of justice, speed limits, traffic regulation
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Historic connections
On Stephen Fry’s Radio 4 series about the history of mobile phones, a designer of HTC smartphones said he aimed to create devices that were “so simple that using them was almost innate”. It reminded me that traffic regulation seems bent … Continue reading
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Control or trust?
Supporters of speed cameras wonder why drivers can’t just observe the rules. We don’t object to just regulation, but as long as traffic policy is based on the unjust system of priority, it must be challenged. Commenting on electoral reform, … Continue reading
