A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant
Red tape and black markets
Prohibition is a criminal’s best friend
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American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
The man who ended overreach
Lord Reed’s tenure as president of the Supreme Court has been admired by those who value the stability of the law
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
Britain and brutalism: listed, not loved
The visitor numbers and heritage status of the Southbank tell us nothing about what people actually want to look at
One year later
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the gender argument is not going anywhere
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation