Ross Clark Ross Clark

Banned Wagon | 13 September 2003

A weekly survey of world restrictions on freedom and free trade

issue 13 September 2003

In spite of our late and grotty trains, it comes as a relief to return to work in Britain. A fortnight in France reveals a country that has been greatly affected by the obligatory 35-hour week since I last took the family on holiday there in 2001. It is peculiar to be driving through the middle of a holiday district, Brittany, in the middle of August to find restaurant after restaurant shut for business.

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