Christopher Snowdon

Christopher Snowdon is the head of lifestyle economics at the Institute of Economic Affairs. He is the author of Killjoys, Selfishness, Greed and Capitalism, The Art of Suppression: Pleasure, Panic and Prohibition Since 1800, The Spirit Level Delusion, and, Velvet Glove, Iron Fist. You can find him tweeting at @cjsnowdon

How to make irrational authoritarian moralism sound like urgent common sense

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The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken

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A Netflix-style subscription model is the only way to save the BBC

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The battle against the illicit tobacco market has not been won

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On the illusions of evidence-based policy

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Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity

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The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under

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Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers

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Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be

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Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation

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