Imagine waking up one morning to find a humiliating(令人羞辱的) video of you, filmed without your knowledge or control, plastered all over(遍布于) social media. Maybe you were sweating at the gym; or maybe at work, in a bar, or walking down the street, where you never realised the stranger hassling you for your number was covertly filming for his social media channel dedicated to shaming women who won’t date him.(也许你正在健身房挥汗如雨；也许是在上班、在酒吧，或者走在街上，你根本没意识到那个缠着你要电话号码的陌生人，正在偷偷拍摄，为他那个专门羞辱拒绝与他约会的女性的社交媒体频道提供素材。)
想象一下，某天早上醒来，发现一段令你难堪的视频——在你毫不知情、无法控制的情况下被拍下——已经传遍了社交媒体。也许你当时正在健身房挥汗如雨；也许是在上班、在酒吧，或者走在街上，你根本没意识到那个缠着你要电话号码的陌生人，正在偷偷拍摄，为他那个专门羞辱拒绝与他约会的女性的社交媒体频道提供素材。
This week ministers hinted at a potential crackdown(严厉打击) on so-called pervert glasses(色狼眼镜), wifi-enabled spectacles(眼镜) that let the wearer capture video of people around them, after multiple reports of men using them to harass women. (Though a small flashing light on the frame is meant to warn that the user is filming, it’s easily missed and worryingly easily disabled(被关闭的).) If so, it would be a small win, admittedly, in the context of what feels like an endless losing battle against big tech.(若真如此，诚然，在与大型科技公司看似无休止的败仗中，这不过是一场小胜。) But it would give young women back some small sense of control in life, and that matters perhaps more than we think.
本周，多位大臣暗示可能对所谓的“色狼眼镜”进行打击——这种联网眼镜能让佩戴者拍摄周围人的视频——此前已有多起报道称男性利用它骚扰女性。（尽管镜框上有一个小闪光灯意在提醒他人正在拍摄，但它很容易被忽略，而且令人担忧的是，也很容易被关闭。）若真如此，诚然，在与大型科技公司看似无休止的败仗中，这不过是一场小胜。但它能让年轻女性重新获得一些对生活的掌控感，而这或许比我们想象的更重要。
When Andy Burnham declared war last month on people listening to loud music on the bus without headphones, he was mocked for fiddling while Rome burns(罗马大火时还在拉琴——比喻大难临头却忙于琐事). What next, jail time for finishing off the milk and putting the empty carton carefully back in the fridge? But if anything, the prime minister has since doubled down on(加倍投入，更加坚定) sweating the small stuff(为小事操心). In a week in which unknown forces have been disrupting food supplies and grounding(使（飞机）停飞) flights across Europe, Burnham found time to weigh in personally over(亲自介入) thoughtless(欠考虑的，自私的) idiots abandoning hire bikes in the middle of city pavements – a genuine problem for blind people and people trying to get round them with pushchairs(婴儿推车) or wheelchairs, but usually the sort of crackdown left to junior ministers – and on the attempt to save Poundland shops for the nation. It wasn’t until I spoke to the former Starmer strategist Claire Ainsley about her new book, Control: How We Lost it and How to Take it Back, that something clicked into place: all these policies are about exerting control, in situations where we feel it’s been taken away from us.(直到我与前斯塔默战略师克莱尔·艾恩斯利聊起她的新书《控制：我们如何失去它，又如何夺回它》，我才恍然大悟：所有这些政策都关乎施加控制，而正是在我们感到控制权被剥夺的情境中。)
上个月，安迪·伯纳姆向在公交车上不戴耳机大声放音乐的人宣战，结果被嘲讽为“罗马大火时还在拉琴”。接下来呢，喝完牛奶把空盒仔细放回冰箱也要坐牢？但如果说有什么变化，那就是首相此后反而更加执着于这些小事。就在未知势力扰乱欧洲食品供应、导致航班停飞的一周里，伯纳姆还抽空亲自介入，针对那些没脑子的白痴把共享单车扔在人行道中央的问题——这对盲人和推婴儿车或轮椅的人来说是个实实在在的难题，但通常这类整治是交给初级大臣去办的——以及试图为国民保住Poundland折扣店。直到我与前斯塔默战略师克莱尔·艾恩斯利聊起她的新书《控制：我们如何失去它，又如何夺回它》，我才恍然大悟：所有这些政策都关乎施加控制，而正是在我们感到控制权被剥夺的情境中。