If you have ever owned one of those inflatable U-shaped travel pillows, the ones you wrap around your neck on long bus journeys, you will have probably noticed that there is no government warning label against over-inflation of these pillows.

There is no message from the Chiropractor General of the United States informing consumers of the potential hazards, nor, to my knowledge, have there been any mass recalls of the product.

If there is any more damning evidence of government inaction in this country, I don’t know what it is.

If you are able to read these words right now, it means that you are not lying comatose in a public hospital. That puts you in the category of people who have never attempted to use one of these pillows…