The British state treats its adults like children
From smoking bans to arrests over tweets, the UK is being run like an oversized kindergarten.
Online safety rules, smoking bans, sugar taxes – British adults are constantly treated by the state like overgrown children. Will we ever get tired of this? It’s time to reclaim our agency, says Sheila Lewis
Whether it is managing risk, raising children, participating in political debate online or engaging in community life, today’s helicopter politicians have transformed Britain into a kindergarten. Liberal democracy has been hollowed out and reduced to a managerial process – something to be administered by experts and institutions rather than lived and practised by citizens themselves. We should resist accepting this constant nannying as the norm. A free society depends on trusting people with their own lives.
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