Inflate a prob­lem, lie about it, redefine some words, and hey presto! You have a way to make a new law that will prob­ably cause a lot of harm but will tick the boxes of cer­tain voters whilst not ali­en­at­ing others.

As part one of my cam­paign to intro­duce the concept of actu­ally think­ing to UK media, pun­dits and gov­ern­ment, I’m cov­er­ing the nasty little idea of auto­matic speed lim­iters being intro­duced to cars — so that people can, basic­ally, stop think­ing about the speed they drive at. That’ll work…

Intro­du­cing my per­sonal, one man mini-crusade — the Cam­paign for Think­ing. It’s going to be a scattered stream of con­scious­ness thing. It might be good ther­apy for me. Who knows?