64 • AUGUST 2019weapons” march in 1980 and I’ve
been passionately opposed to
nuclear weapons my entire adult life.
The argument is that you have to
have a deterrent, but there are 220
countries on the planet and fewer
than 20 of them have a deterrent,
yet the other 200-plus manage to
get by OK.I’d ban private schools. Yes, I’m in
a banning mood! I’m a great believer
that if you have a state school system
everybody needs to go through that
same system and if people have £30-
£40,000 to spend on private school
education then we’re not taxing
them enough. We could take that tax
and put it into a comprehensive
education system that would benefit
everybody. I just don’t believe it’s
fair that people can pay for their
children to have an advantage
through life.Everybody would ride on two
wheels. They’d have to do that forI would legalise all drugs. If you
look at Portugal and the experiment
they have there, where essentially
you don’t get prosecuted for drugs in
a criminal sense but you’re referred
to doctors and detox clinics and it’s
treated as a health issue, they’ve seen
levels of addiction and drug crime
drop dramatically. When we have
100,000 tobacco-related deaths a
year and a conservative estimate of
10,000 from alcohol it might seem
counterintuitive to say, “let’s legalise
more drugs” but the only way I think
we can avoid things like the death of
Louella Michie is to legalise and test.I’d limit the use of smartphones.
Instead I’d have more free internet
stations so when you’re walking
around a busy town and you don’t
know where you’re going you can
look up Google Maps at the station,
then go back to talking to people.Nuclear weapons would be banned.
I went to my first “ban nuclearMatthew Wright, 53, is the journalist-turned-
presenter who hosted The Wright Stuff for eight
years. He now has a weekday show on talkRADIOIF I RULED THE WORLD
Matthew Wright