Talk:Hutber's law

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Noting here the new refs found during the debate on AfD at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hutber's law - thanks to User:danntm and others who contributed. --mervyn 13:54, 21 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"Not a Credit to the Banks," Daily Mail, 12 April 1992, p. 6: referring to a problem with an upgrade to ATMs "What a fine example of the operation of Hutber's law - that improvements invariably make things worse."
"Leading Article: Figuring it Out," The Guardian, 15 April 1994, p. 21: "'another case of Hutber's law, that 'progress brings deterioration'".
The Scotsman, 13 Sept. 1994: "One of the immutable laws of business, according to the late Patrick Hutber, one of the best regarded financial journalists, was that improvement meant deterioration."
Tim Satchell, "Patience is the hardest virtue: Tim Satchell explains why it took two years to secure the money he was owed," Daily Telegrah, 20 January 2001, p. 06: "[The] Woolf [reforms to the legal system] went the way of Hutber's Law, that great truism revealed by the City commentator Patrick Hutber who said, 'improvement means deterioration'"
"Pay any price to beat poverty," New Statesman, 26 November 2001, "Hutber's law, coined by a now deceased journalist, states: 'Improvement means deterioration.'"

Plus the exchange from the House of Commons recorded in Hansard in July 1990:

Mr. Ian Taylor (Esher) : Will my right hon. and learned Friend find time for a debate in the near future on British Rail? Has he heard about the latest example of Hutber's law, which is that this week Network SouthEast has announced that, in order to improve services in my constituency, it is to cancel 43 trains a day? My constituents are somewhat aggrieved about that.http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm198990/cmhansrd/1990-07-05/Debate-1.html
- Sir Geoffrey Howe : Speaking as one Surrey Member of Parliament to another, I am prepared to endorse my hon. Friend's anxieties about the shortcomings on certain suburban rail services. I understand that the changes that are being made are intended largely to endorse those which follow from the absence of negotiations of the kind to which my hon. Friend referred. I shall certainly bring his point to the attention of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Transport. We should like to see a real improvement in those services. I am glad that my hon. Friend still remembers with affection the inventor of Hutber's law, the late Patrick Hutber.http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm198990/cmhansrd/1990-07-05/Debate-2.html

I managed to add cleaned-up citations to those articles into the references section of the article.-- danntm ^T _C 21:59, 25 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]