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”
VPN nation
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
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The tears of Keir’s
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Restoration romps
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Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
In praise of the English football fan
No one likes them, they don’t care — and good for them
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No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
Why are doctors special?
Doctors have a lot less to complain about than other workers
The masculinity crisis is a porn crisis
We have to do more to challenge the reshaping of culture by pornography
A below-par Riley is still better than most
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