Dawkins on dimwitted Dundridges

[Martin Cassini]

A good anti-regulation piece by Richard Dawkins was emailed by Ben Ravilious. Extract: "The official and his supervisor were human beings who wanted to act decently, but they were stymied by a rulebook [that was] incapable of discretion, compassion or humanity. Discretion can be abused, and rulebooks are safeguards, but the balance has shifted too far in the direction of an obsessive reverence for rules."