The UK Metric Association has said the plans by Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government to bring back imperial weights and measures in shops and other businesses will make it harder for consumers to compare prices at a time of rising inflation. Ministers are to announce on Friday—timed to coincide with the Queen’s platinum jubilee—plans to…
UK Bid To Turn Clock Back With Imperial Measures ‘Bad for Consumers’ Say Metric Fans
The Canadian Metric System
Commentary In January 1970, with its “White Paper on Metric Conversion in Canada” the government of that country engaged in a radical measurement alteration. It started moving the entire nation from the imperial to the metric system. Those opposed to this alteration created a great hue and cry against it; there was much gnashing of…
Measuring Resistance and Outlasting Progressivism
The swarm of busybodies and prissy reformers has been with us a long time. And in the name of progress they’ve always pushed, always hectored, always demanded that we join them on the winning side of history. What seems to elude them is the irony that it’s only the winning side if we actually do…
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