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
The public health playbook
Talk of a “tobacco playbook” is pure projection
We should filter out anti-smoking hysteria
It is nonsense to claim that some cigarettes are not safer than others
Britain has to break its addiction to debt
A policy of endless borrowing has been a miserable failure
Is smoking cool again?
Attempts to stamp out cigarettes could be having unintended consequences
Physician associates are not a problem to be cured
The argument against PAs in the NHS remains unconvincing
Fat chance
Projections about obesity are hard to swallow
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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
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured
How procedure is enabling petty criminals
We should support workers who confront criminals
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
What is anger for?
If young women are going to be radical, they need to make it worth it
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
“Fauxcest” is not a free speech issue
The government should ban this dangerous and disgusting genre
Get into the groove — why vinyl rocks
On the best sound in popular music
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Murders for April
Make sure it is the cruellest month with this detective fiction