Legislation that touches daily pleasures, like music and sport, has a way of revealing the true character of a government. In countries that have imposed strict caps on resale, you can see both relief and frustration, relief when the worst excesses are curbed, frustration when tickets vanish into tighter networks or new forms of arbitrage. Here in Britain ministers have already consulted on limits between zero and thirty percent, which suggests they know the present model offends basic fairness. Yet they also hear warnings from banks and consumer groups about fraud shifting to murkier channels if people are pushed off regulated platforms. The honest approach is to treat the cap as a pilot, publish the results, adjust where necessary and admit that no one measure will reconcile every claim of the artist, the venue, the platform and the fan. A government that can explain that complexity without flinching might earn more loyalty than one that simply echoes the loudest lobby on either side.