The poverty of anti-smoking laws
Smokers are not a drain on the economy
Disposable vapes and the race to prohibition
The state should enforce existing rules, not ban disposable vapes
How many people actually smoke?
Manchester memories and the black market in tobacco
Low nicotine, low profits
Well, that’s the end of ultra-low nicotine cigarettes
Why public health has become a dirty word
The field has been hijacked by a politicised and self-serving class of experts
Vapegoating e-cigarettes
Why do we believe the worst about e-cigarettes?
Who’s afraid of UPF? (Part 2)
Bad science is hard to swallow
Who’s afraid of UPF? (Part 1)
The ultra-processed food scare is a backwards step for science
A nation of motorists
Metropolitan journalists do not appreciate how the nation travels
Prohibitionist alchemy
More alcohol advertising does not mean more drinking
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation
Butchering La bohème
Opera is “relatable” already
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
The crisis at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre
Serious as it is, it is no anomaly
John Swinney’s Isla Bryson moment?
The Scottish Government must be made to face the facts on sex and gender
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
The strange death of the Office for Place
The demise of the Office for Place is a missed opportunity for housing
