Roughly 10,000 people die in London each year from air pollution, much of it from diesel engines.

The UK government attacks everyone's freedom, supposedly to reduce the already tiny danger of terrorism. But terrorists would find it exceedingly hard to kill even 1% as many people as the diesels do.

Britons should demand that the government end to massive surveillace and focus on the greater danger of cars. But this lesson is not limited to Britain.

How many thousands do diesels kill every year in France? I don't know, but it must be thousands. So why have a "state of emergency" that tramples human rights supposedly to protect against the secondary danger of terrorists, instead of against car companies?