Imagine, for a moment, that a British government grew so anxious about headlines about snow chaos that it passed a Swedish-style law making winter tyres compulsory. Who will take my bet that Britain would not wake to the following headline: “Nanny state imposes £300 Euro-tyres on British motorists”?
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‘Bagehot’, “Tabloids: why is Sweden better at coping with snow than Britain?”, The Economist, 2 December 2010
http://www.economist.com/blogs/bagehot/2010/12/britain_under_snow
