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Eleni Chalkidou asks why the important work of regulators is so often taken for granted
Posted 24 June 2019 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Opinion|Inside Trading Standards|National
OPINION: Rules can feel restrictive until we imagine life without them. Using everyday experiences to illustrate the point, this opinion piece argues that effective regulation underpins fair competition, consumer confidence and a functioning society.
Whenever I pull out a board game – whether it’s Monopoly, Scrabble or Battleship – it’s more or less guaranteed that my free-reading six-year-old, who is a ‘stickler for the rules’, will pick up the rule book and start reading out loud. This is usually followed by me rolling my eyes, going: “Achilles, stop being so pedantic, we’ll just make them up as we go. It will be more fun.”
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