A nation of motorists
Metropolitan journalists do not appreciate how the nation travels
Prohibitionist alchemy
More alcohol advertising does not mean more drinking
Ban the Barbies?
Must EVERYTHING be problematic?
Freedom Day remembered
How the doomsayers got it wrong
Public health porkers
COVID lockdowns do not excuse endless authoritarian measures
The problem with problem gambling
Let’s try to keep things in perspective
Minimum pricing, miserable results
Minimum pricing has not succeeded even on its own terms
The vape scare down under
Australia is engaging in a baseless moral panic over vaping, and its having unintended consequences
Big business versus small consumer
Producers only get a hearing at the expense of consumers
Names in the frame
All human emotions find their expression on the green baize
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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
The strange death of Christian Scotland
Scotland’s religious traditions have been swept away. Now, secular intolerance rules
From Newton to newts
Putting badgers on the banknotes may avoid controversy, but it also avoids saying anything meaningful about Britain at all
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
Trump: the imprudent king
The President has so far achieved the opposite of what he promised
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
What Louis Theroux ignores
Pea-brained influencers make for an easier target than Islamic misogyny
Starmer’s union trap
Labour has handed power back to the unions, and is now discovering the cost of obedience
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity