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

Minimum pricing has not succeeded even on its own terms

Australia is engaging in a baseless moral panic over vaping, and its having unintended consequences

Producers only get a hearing at the expense of consumers

All human emotions find their expression on the green baize

Why do we assume that lost freedoms are universal?

The dangers of alcohol are being overstated

What exactly is wrong with processed food?

New regulations are not based on expertise

Henry Dimbleby’s new book doesn’t hit the spot