Hot on the heels of yesterdays report that road maps using miles instead of kilometres are now in danger, Tim Worstall tells us the story of the Belgian town council which is trying to implement standardised clothing rules. As I suggest in comments this issue is not as trivial as it seems, and Maaseik is far from the only municipality across Europe to try to implement dress regulations.
August 30, 2005
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September 1st, 2005 at 8:28 pm
Forbidding face-covering Burqua’s is not really the same as ‘trying to implement standardised clothing rules’.