“They keep tightening the screws. The bureaucrats, that is. They just can’t help it.”
Per this article a bureaucrat loosened a screw!
Loosened it under duress, I’ll bet. Put him on Page One. Expose the bustard, I say.
“The Department for Transport initially said the decision was made to stop fishermen risking their own lives at work.”
“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress