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
Big business versus small consumer
Producers only get a hearing at the expense of consumers
Names in the frame
All human emotions find their expression on the green baize
The abnormality of nannying
Why do we assume that lost freedoms are universal?
In defence of booze
The dangers of alcohol are being overstated
Just the tonic
Rediscover the forgotten treasure of Australia: fortified wines
Anti-Christian persecution is an international problem
Britain should use its diplomatic influence to help
Kim Leadbeater’s “safeguards” won’t keep people safe
The proposed legal hurdles are effectively useless
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
South Africa needs better policies, not just better vibes
Political change must lead to economic change as well
Why does the establishment want to harm farms?
The Government expects farmers to act as environmental agents of the state
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
On the King’s Road to ruin
The decline of commerce on Chelsea’s celebrated street is a worrying sign for London
