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
Sweet taste of sovereignty
It seems “Global Britain” is smaller and less delicious
Follow the Who Funds You
Oddly nobody’s shadowbanning conspiracy theories about the Great Barrington Declaration
The risk in a second lockdown is clear
Everyone suffering in pursuit of impossible promises is pointless
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
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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
Not so good after all
Can left-leaning journalists finally acknowledge the challenges British society faces?
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration
Taylor’s Version of feminism
Taylor Swift’s marriage is less a retreat from feminism than its logical conclusion
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
