Column | Lewis: The winding road

Column | Lewis: The winding road

I hate bans. I don’t like government telling me I can’t buy something, build something or do something simply because someone has decided it would be better for me — or society — if I didn’t. There is something I dislike almost as much: bans on bans. Welcome to the modern ballot, where increasingly we are asked to choose between two answers to a question that probably shouldn’t have been yes or no in the first place. Natural gas is a perfect exa…