A Sledgehammer for a Gnat: Oxford and Cambridge Are Over-Engineering Small Problems by Keith Watts
Oxford and Cambridge both have real problems. Oxford can’t get short-term rental owners to bother with licensing. Cambridge has a genuine, decades-old blight problem in its housing stock. Nobody disputes either fact. What’s harder to swallow is the scale of the machinery each town is now building — machinery that, on close reading, sweeps […]
Sin? By Al Sikes
Have we yielded and then legalized and now promote destructive behavior? It is a case made by the founding editors of Axios and Politico, Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen—not notable moralists. VandeHei and Allen note: “Once forbidden vices—weed, gambling and porn—are no longer confined to back alleys or the desert”. They continue: “They’re ubiquitous, […]