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
Public health and the eternal paternalist
Public health can be a Trojan horse for anti-capitalism
Prohibiting pints instead of doing politics
Reducing the drink-drive limit will sound good and achieve nothing
Ultra-processed? No problem!
Yes, people can lose weight and stay healthy while eating “ultra-processed food”
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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
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions
Gentrification? Better than deprivation
Elephant and Castle has been radically spruced up, but not everyone is happy about it
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
The Mexican baby business
In UK courts, parental orders for children born overseas outnumber those born to surrogates here
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
No taxation on expatriation
With no navy and minimal evacuation efforts, the UK’s demand that citizens abroad pay up is ludicrous
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked