News and current affairs will carry on slanting their broadcasts in favour of the European Union and the bien-pensant consensus on any subject you care to name, safe in the knowledge that the trust that regulates them is presided over by… well, let's just call him a most agreeable supper companion for liberal broadcasters".
NHS insiders said it was "very, very odd" and significant that, in a departure from its usual practice, Monitor discussed the financial and treatment waiting time performance of the 152 foundation trusts it regulates in the private – rather than the public – session of its board meeting last Wednesday.
They are characterised by an exchange of resources and negotiations and by game-like interactions "rooted in trust and regulated by the rules of the game negotiated and agreed by network participants" (Rhodes 2000: 61).
Proponents of this view ignore the clear and painful lessons of recent experience -- that business cannot be trusted to regulate itself, that regulators are far more likely to be too weak than too bold, and that the costs of clean-up and the burdens on the economy of financial crises are far higher than the cost of effective up-front regulation.
— Sam Sifton The New York Times: Mark Bittman says the food industry can't be trusted to regulate itself.
– Lib Dem peer Lord Lester, addressing a conference of media lawyers The press can't be trusted to regulate itself, so the argument goes.
It would leave the press, despite all the scandals of the last few years, as the only major source of power in Britain trusted to regulate itself.
His argument offers a classic example of why politicians cannot be trusted to regulate the press: they define "the public interest" in a way that suits them, and punish publications who defy this interest.
She seemed wary of what she called "schemes designed to promote balance or diversity of opinions," saying the government often cannot be trusted to regulate the marketplace of political ideas.
This was not a problem that was primarily created in the UK; it arose from financial deregulation in the US – so much so that the outgoing boss of the US banking regulator admitted that he'd learned from the crisis that banks could not be trusted to regulate themselves.
Despite a mordant view of the morals of the world, he did believe then that his class was capable of better things — that, while its practices might be fundamentally mercantile, its ideals elevated those practices into a coherent ethical system, and it could be trusted to regulate itself, because its commitment to its own high standards remained vigorous and genuine.
