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- Allfree, Claire. Bad Laws exposes the flaws that curtail individual freedom (Book review of "Bad Laws"). Metro. 6 April 2010.
- Wilson, Ben. Bad Laws: An Explosive Analysis of Britain's Petty Rules, Health and Safety Lunacies and Madcap Laws by Philip Johnston: review". The Telegraph. 13 April 2010. Also serialised in "Bad laws: Labour has clowned around with our freedom" and "How do we win back our freedom".
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- ↑ Foster, Charles. "Britain--the over-governed society" (Book review of Bad Laws). Contemporary Review. 22 December 2010. Highbeam Research The Free Library Bibliography of Foster's articles Archived 2015-04-19 at the Wayback Machine .
- ↑ Appleton, Josie. Send in the Clown's: Britain's Bizarre New Laws. Spiked. December 2010.