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
Ban the Barbies?
Must EVERYTHING be problematic?
Freedom Day remembered
How the doomsayers got it wrong
Public health porkers
COVID lockdowns do not excuse endless authoritarian measures
The problem with problem gambling
Let’s try to keep things in perspective
Minimum pricing, miserable results
Minimum pricing has not succeeded even on its own terms
The vape scare down under
Australia is engaging in a baseless moral panic over vaping, and its having unintended consequences
We need more have-yachts
The tragedy of the Bayesian highlights a wider issue about our lack of ambition
Pandæmonium
Better to reign in hell than serve in government
A full-blooded blow-out
Kurt Weill: Symphonies, Seven Deadly Sins (DG)
The death of conservatism?
Individually and collectively, we must choose life
No Kemi, liberalism hasn’t been hacked
Badenoch’s party brought us to this point. It was no accident
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
It’s the economy, stupid
The US election was another reminder of people’s biggest political priority
The dangerous lure of Europe
We must disincentivise economic migration to European states
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
