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
Who do we think we’re kidding with the NHS?
Someone somewhere damaged this country very badly
The lockdown’s founding myth
We’ve forgotten that the Imperial model didn’t even call for a full lockdown
Blown fusionism: is a common enemy enough?
Ed West, Small Men on the Wrong Side of History
A bleak midwinter
For fans watching QPR struggle for the past two decades, it feels like the club is cursed
Fear Ireland’s shadow banks
The Emerald Isle is ripe for a volatile market correction
Why young men like Donald Trump
He cuts through the sterility and severity of modern life
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
The sorry strategy
Reparations are a deeply dangerous strategy in the carnivorous world of geopolitics
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
Labour is killing British farming
Attacks on British agriculture must be resisted
The party that fell for a lie
The WEP is unable to give a straight answer to the question: what is a woman?