How to Label a Goat has certainly caught the attention of the media. The goat and I have been in and out of the nations radio and tv stations all week. We have even gained a warm endorsement from serial blogger Tim Worstall. Our interview on Today on Tuesday 21st caused a stir with one Sun reader, who wrote to the paper, complaining that Jim Naughtie had leapt to the defence of the Government and its 1369 page pensions 'simplification' -- arguing that the length of the regulations 'doesn't prove they don't work'. Naughtie was a bit grumpy, but he has got to ask the questions, hasn't he? But the answer to Naughtie's question, on more reflection, is 'no': the fact that a set of regulations runs to 1369 pages does prove it doesn't work -- for a law to be effective it has to be understood by anyone who might fall foul of it and anyone charged with enforcing it. On both counts the new laws on pensions fail. What they create, rather, is a situation in which nobody can tell for sure whether they are within the law