We should take great care to differentiate between laws, regulations and social mores that do nothing more than protect us from obvious physical dangers and those that are imposed because of current ideas of a so-called morality.
Judy Englander
3 years ago
I may have misread this post, but restricted pub opening times aren’t new. This was the law in my lifetime (“time gentlemen please!”*) until the Blair government abolished it.
*The phrase indicates an age when it was faintly improper for women to go to pubs alone. I tried it when I was 19 and the stares made it too uncomfortable to repeat the experiment.
We should take great care to differentiate between laws, regulations and social mores that do nothing more than protect us from obvious physical dangers and those that are imposed because of current ideas of a so-called morality.
I may have misread this post, but restricted pub opening times aren’t new. This was the law in my lifetime (“time gentlemen please!”*) until the Blair government abolished it.
*The phrase indicates an age when it was faintly improper for women to go to pubs alone. I tried it when I was 19 and the stares made it too uncomfortable to repeat the experiment.