Debunking degrowth
Want to be poorer and less free? Do we have an ideology for you
Doctor knows best?
A trip down the medical memory lane
Dump the pumps
People are not going to buy a product they don’t like
A bitter pill for public health
The sugar tax has not worked as intended
“Public health” doubles down
Prohibitionists are never satisfied
An about-turn on tobacco
Prohibitionists are changing course on cigarettes, and Rishi stands alone
Leave those cigs along
A new tax on rolling tobacco will backfire
The sugar tax leaves a bitter taste
The evidence for an effect on health is dubious to non-existent
The anti-gambling house of cards
Gambling and the simplistic dogma of public health
The evils of Panglossian prohibitionism
Banning the sale of tobacco would increase the black market in cigarettes
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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
Pärtly good
Arvo Pärt: 4 symphonies (Chandos)
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
Britain’s AI gamble reeks of desperation
The government is betting it all on AI — it could lose our trousers
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
Free speech is about principle, not political convenience
One might disagree with pro-Palestine radicals but that does not mean that they should be censored
Beef and Brexit prosperity
High beef prices are a symptom of a deeper problem—Britain has left the EU, but not its economic mindset.
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
The next chapter for The Critic
A request — and an opportunity!
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
From Newton to newts
Putting badgers on the banknotes may avoid controversy, but it also avoids saying anything meaningful about Britain at all