How many people actually smoke?
Manchester memories and the black market in tobacco
Low nicotine, low profits
Well, that’s the end of ultra-low nicotine cigarettes
Why public health has become a dirty word
The field has been hijacked by a politicised and self-serving class of experts
Vapegoating e-cigarettes
Why do we believe the worst about e-cigarettes?
Who’s afraid of UPF? (Part 2)
Bad science is hard to swallow
Who’s afraid of UPF? (Part 1)
The ultra-processed food scare is a backwards step for science
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
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
AI and the Jefferson Option
Eighteenth-century advice on surviving the AI apocalypse
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact
The importance of ancestry
Remembering a great scholar of nationalism
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
Cosmonaut thriller is absolutely stellar
Strong characters drive Star City forward in an increasingly paranoid hothouse of fear, betrayal and adultery
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
Equality of opportunity, and other bedtime stories
Britain cannot make progress if equality is its highest goal
Will Andy Burnham be a literary leader?
Burnham is a rare politician who reads books — but how will they affect his premiership?
What if the AI bubble bursts?
Arguing that an AI bubble is a good thing reeks of techno-optimist complacency