By Eliot Wilson Schools already have the power to ban smartphones, adding pointless new laws to the statute book is bad for business and bad for democracy, says Eliot Wilson Parliament should never make law lightly. To legislate is to bring the coercive power of the state to bear in regulating conduct and behaviour as well as maintaining rights and freedoms, and it should only be done when there is no alternative. Unfortunately, good intentions sometimes make MPs see the law as a first response. Last week the new Labour MP for Whitehaven and Workington, Josh MacAlister, introduced a bill into …