A few years ago I was hauled up in front of three magistrates in a south London courthouse, the culmination of a months-long bureaucratic nightmare that landed me with a criminal conviction for being unable to prove I had paid a £1.50 bus fare when my phone ran out of battery. After nervously recounting my tangled tale of woe, I was vindicated: I was told my conviction would be withdrawn. “I bet you’re very relieved,” the presiding justice said to me with a sympathetic smile. I was indeed.
幾年前，在倫敦南部一家法院，我被傳訊到三名地方法官面前，先前長達數月的官僚噩夢在這時達到了高潮——在那場官僚噩夢中，我被判有罪，因爲我無法證明自己在手機沒電時支付了1.5英鎊的巴士費。
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