The deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, is pressing ahead with his mission to roll back what he terms the "obsessive lawmaking" of the New Labour years. In today's speech to students at London's City and Islington College he said he wanted people to get involved in "our very own Great Reform Act":

"As we tear through the statute book, we'll do something no government ever has: we will ask you which laws you think should go."



Clegg spoke of the thousands of criminal offences created since 1997. But perhaps you would like to go back further. Some old laws now seem to exist mainly to amuse those combing through the statute book for curiosities such as the ban on the use of "any slide upon ice or snow in any street or other thoroughfare". But you may consider other long-standing pieces of legislation to have more serious and pernicious effects.

Which laws would be top of your target list for repeal?