Gambling with the numbers
A new survey of problem gamblers has serious problems of its own
Tough on smoking, tough on alternatives to smoking
We should give smokers healthier options, not no options
Being economical with the truth
The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (& How It Came to Control Your Life). By George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison
Less smoking, more cancer?
Yet more nonsense from the public health lobby
Nesta, I detest ya
An engine of innovation has become a puddle of inanity
The pointlessness of pintlessness
There is no case for slashing the drink-driving limit
WHO do they think they are?
Politicians should be more sceptical about ideology packaged as “public health”
Don’t let the government poach your pouch
A moral panic is brewing over nicotine pouches
The UPF panic is a fad
Chris van Tulleken cannot seem to decide what an ultra-processed food even is
The gambling suicides myth
The rate of deaths caused by gambling has been foolishly exaggerated
Was The Bible written by slaves?
A new book maintains that enslaved scribes and readers may have affected the shaping of Christian ideas
The end of “Anglo-Saxon”?
The rebranding of Anglo-Saxon England is senseless and silly
Polls at the pics
Films offer windows into the British and American political processes
Britain is not for sale
On the commodification of the nation state
Reformed towns
The Reformation was a transformative moment in English urban history
Hand to mouth
Delicacy, of unknown origins, makes us reluctant to pull plums with our thumbs
How I came to live in Looking-Glass House
How it feels to be exiled over political disagreement
Whole lotta Love
She makes your average rapper look like a Quaker
A bad man writes a worse book
Alastair Campbell’s new book is beneath the level of the bargain bin
An election without ideas
We need intellectual substance, not just idle gossip
The savage triumph
End Game 1944: How Stalin Won the War. By Jonathan Dimbleby
