Organ of state improperganda?

[Martin Cassini]

Not content with running an article about higher-cost ‘speed awareness’ courses to fund retention of speed cameras, today’s Times runs a leader in support of this new form of indirect taxation. It refers to "academic research which concludes that speed cameras save 800 lives a year". That was the skewed Allsop report which I was invited to challenge on Nick Ferrari’s LBC show the other week. The just, sustainable way to achieve appropriate speed and considerate conduct is by harnessing human nature, not hammering it. It’s through context, not coercion. As Chad Dornsife found, the safest drivers are the ones who drive faster than average, yet they are the primary targets of speed enforcement. The whole thing’s a racket, especially when academics and media outlets lend support to the TCD (traffic control dictatorship) and its spurious, self-perpetuating empire.