Anti-smoking own goals
Puritan anti-nicotine policies are successful only in propping up the tobacco industry
Exposing the anti-gambling agenda
Don’t bet on hearing good arguments
Anti-tobacco fanatics need to lighten up
The fun-loving World Health Organisation’s five ways of getting to tobacco prohibition
We need a sugar tax revolt
The sugar tax has not made us healthier but it has made our drinks less delicious
Is the ultra-processed food panic withering away?
Even some of the supporters of the anti-UPF fad have backed away from its most dramatic claims
Banning BOGOFs? Bog off!
It’s not just “no silver bullet” — it simply won’t work
The war on vapes is plain stupid
Plain packaging will not stop people from vaping — and it is wrong to demand it
Britain is drowning in a sea of bad law
The Public Office (Accountability) Bill will accomplish nothing
Confessions of an engagement farmer
Does professional trolling really pay?
Bad medicine
How the Guardian’s favourite doctor ruined his healthy reputation
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
On a wind and a prayer
Beggaring ourselves will not cool the rest of the planet’s weather
Nice Tice
Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
DeepMind delusion
The superstar Demis Hassabis is on a mission to create a God-like superintelligence
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel