There have certainly been some changes in how governments go about their business. In the past, when trying to work out what laws they should make to restrict peoples’ rights, invade their privacy, burden them with more red tape and vaporise their few remaining sparks of incentive, governments had the decency to go through the motions of assessing what was good for the people as a whole.
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