ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK: E-commerce a barometer of government technophobia

17 May 2020 - 00:00 By Arthur Goldstuck

It’s not that a ban on open-toed shoes is ludicrous. Well, it is, but the true absurdity of the manner in which government attempted to cherry-pick what could and could not be sold via e-commerce during lockdown is what it revealed about government technophobia...

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