Spectator competition winners: ludicrous laws

Your latest challenge was to propose a new and ludicrous piece of legislation along with a justification for it. Although Basil Ransome-Davies makes it into the winning line-up, some might argue that his proposal is far from ludicrous, given that cats are taking over the internet. Another suggestion that struck me as eminently sensible was Carolyn Thomas-Coxhead’s call for a ban on the wearing of protuberant rucksacks in busy places. Chris O’Carroll’s neat meta entry, which demands a ban on ‘journals of news and opinion …sponsoring competitions that award prizes for light verse and frivolous comic prose’, made me smile, and I also commend D.A. Prince, who was not alone in considering that there is an urgent need for the equivalent of a Highway Code for pedestrians. The winners take £30 each. Brian Murdoch pockets £35.

Brian Murdoch Nomenclatural Regulation After representations from teaching unions, immigration focus groups, the police and the NHS, new rules for registering children come into force in 2018.