One of the delusions of the nanny state is that laws made in the distant chambers of Parliament House can impact, command-and-control style, on the lives of ordinary citizens. Take this self-congratulatory serving from Bob the Blogger on 5 January:

One of the happiest campaigns I devised after leaving ‘the job’ [as NSW Premier] was in getting regulations to force fast-service food outlets to post calorie information on their menus.