Mrs Thatcher had a minister, Neil Hamilton, responsible for deregulation. Under Labour a similar agenda was pursued by the Better Regulation Task Force. That morphed into the Better Regulation Commission and then into the Better Regulation Advisory Council and, finally, into a whole Department of State in the form of BERR the Department for Business, …
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Jun 02
On Liberty
The tobacco industry and me This posting has been paid for by the tobacco industry. It is an article commissioned by Risk of Freedom Briefing, a publication edited by the philosopher Roger Scruton and sponsored by JT International (Japan Tobacco). Sadly, before it could be published, JT International withdrew their sponsorship and the publication ceased …
Mar 05
Seat belts – blood on my hands?
I have just found an anonymous, one sentence comment on my blog. It reads: Your campaign against seat belt wearing has already borne fruit: http://www.stuff.co.nz/4411639a6479.html . The link takes you to an interesting story from New Zealand with the headline Seatbelt subterfuge kills driver. The driver who was killed, according to the story, was opposed …
Books
DATE TITLE BUY / DOWNLOAD 2013 Cities at Risk: Living with Perils in the 21st Century (Joffe, Rossetto and Adams eds.) – £90.00!!! You can also download a draft of my chapter – Risk Compensation Buy on Amazon 1995 Risk UCL Press Download book as PDF (1.5MB) View reviews Up dated preface – March 2009 [PDF]. …
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