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I love our nanny state. I bet you do too
ONCE, the notion of a building fire was one of the rational fears of life: another thing to keep all our fretful grannies awake at night.
Now, it’s an obscenity.
The sight of a flaming tower-block in London — the city that has been devastated by fire a dozen times in its two thousand-year history, most famously in 1666 — does not make sense to our modern…
It looks too outlandish to exist outside a bad horror movie.
And that’s because in first-world economies, we all drift through our…