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No, alcohol consumption has not spiked since the pandemic
The OBR is worse than useless
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Moralism posing as economics
From gambling to billionaires, moral crusades are being dressed up as pragmatism
Public health versus the public
Public health authorities hate it when consumers speak for themselves
The big fat myth of child obesity
We have been misled for years about our children
Anti-smoking own goals
Puritan anti-nicotine policies are successful only in propping up the tobacco industry
Exposing the anti-gambling agenda
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Anti-tobacco fanatics need to lighten up
The fun-loving World Health Organisation’s five ways of getting to tobacco prohibition
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The lonely death of Henry Nowak
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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
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The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
Assisted suicide has been dealt a fatal blow
The Scottish Parliament arrived at the right decision. Westminster should do the same
Let’s pay MPs less
MPs are getting another inflation-busting pay rise — even as the country they govern grows poorer
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
Manic and messianic
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The roots of hatred
Antisemitism, an ancient subject, has once again become a hot topic
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
The UK’s messiest election ever?
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Bonfire of the fallacies
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