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Overbearing laws are encouraging a breakdown in trust
The underground tobacco trade is thriving in Britain
Government measures have pushed smokers towards cheaper alternatives
Give prohibitionists an inch …
Public health experts are coming for all gambling, not just certain kinds
Hey, Streeting, leave our food alone
Wes Streeting and his “nudges” will not improve our health
The Lucy Letby truthers
Many of her supporters’ claims don’t stand up to scrutiny
Banning ads is mad and bad
Keir Starmer is embracing Sunakian petty prohibitionism
What is the European Commission smoking?
Hiking taxes on cigarette substitutes is public health madness
How to define a doctor?
Plus, what has moderate alcohol consumption done for us?
The tyranny of the non-smoking majority
Moral busybodies should leave smokers alone
The blunt truth about victim-led campaigns
Suffering does not make someone an expert on policy
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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
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
At a loose end
We are making young adults un-ready for work
Going for Broke
It’s that time of year to publicly humiliate oneself with Cheltenham tips
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
Critical briefing: energy price shocks
The shocks from the Iran War are yet to be felt, but are sure to be powerful
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
The right has a conspiracy problem
Conspiracies exist — but the temptation to use them as an all-purpose explanation is wrongheaded
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project