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Huh, I clicked thinking "this isn't news" because the UK outlawed a bunch of things in '14. Didn't know they'd reversed that in '19.

I really don't understand how a thing can reasonably go from legal to illegal to legal to illegal in a 12 year span.

Could you imagine something on that time frame, but requiring amending the foundational constitution of the country to make something illegal, then doing so again, to make it legal? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-first_Amendment_to_the_...)
Well, yes, but that sits in my mind next to things like "the king has gas don't make jokes at dinner tonight" because it's in the Ancient Past.

And that's not quite as bad because we didn't do prohibition twice, did we?

I imagine that there are plentiful examples in unstable regions as well where regimes are dissolved and installed.

And I guess under the cheeto-in-chief we've seen somewhat similar in that "you can sell this for tariff X, woops Y, okay I meant Z", but that's not exactly "we can't decide whether or not you're a sex offender" levels of governance.

Will a Brit please explain to me what the absolute heck is going on over there? A new Victorian age, with all the prudishness and none of the industrial innovation or scientific progress?