Freedom from oppression

[Martin Cassini]

"Mubarak’s resignation is the greatest day of my life!" said El Baradei, "It marks release from 30 years of oppression." Maybe, but don’t succeeding governments find different ways to oppress us? I don’t want to downplay the news from Egypt or overplay my campaign for traffic system reform, but when you consider that the annual casualty toll on UK roads alone is 28,000 (and I argue that many "accidents" are not accidents at all, but events contrived by the rules and design of the road), perhaps it’s fair to comment that freedom from priority-based traffic control would bring lasting release from oppression on the roads.