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On David Hockney's edition of Today about intrusive authoritarianism, Bob Marshall Andrews said this legislatively hyperactive government seeks to deter wicked behaviour by restricting civil liberties - an approach doomed to fail. David Willetts said it's better to harness human nature than seek to control it (a view I share and expressed in In Your Car No-one Can Hear You Scream!). Hockney was asked how far he would go, e.g. rethink traffic lights, speed limits? Well, no, he said, you need those sorts of laws. Disappointing. Hockney deplores the ban on smoking in public places, which causes inconvenience and even harm to others, yet ignores other areas where perverse authoritarianism has crept in to universal detriment.

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