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
Raiding the bookmakers
A money-hungry government is coming for online gambling
Against zombie prohibitionism
Public health fanatics are coming for your alcohol, lack of evidence be damned
On the march with the skeleton army
Boisterous boozers rose up against the temperance tyrants of the Sally Army
The bitter truth about the sugar tax
There is nothing to savour in its results
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The memory wars
Poland and Ukraine must find some way to stop falling out over history
What is the CID for?
Zac Brettler’s short life and mysterious death
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
The big crunch
How university expansion failed to prepare Britain for the future
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
Let there be lightness
Black Comedy is best viewed as a breathtakingly accomplished technical exercise
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting