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
No, vaping is not as dangerous as smoking
There is no good evidence to support scaremongering
Nostalgia Inc.
We’re raking over the embers of twentieth century popular culture instead of making something original
Gambling is not the business of “public health professionals”
The concept of “public health” should apply to collective risks, not individual choices
The blind ideology of public health
Minimum pricing has failed, so why is it still promoted?
Special interests should pay their own way
The Brussels blob needs more accountability
Turning virtue into vice
Be wary of excitable claims about the cost of eating healthily
The zombie policies of public health
Whatever the evidence, public health officials will never admit to being wrong
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He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
The tears of Keir’s
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These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
The case against Project Spire
The Church of England should abandon this misleading and expensive exercise in virtue signalling
The meaning and meaninglessness of Makerfield
Andy Burnham has triumphed — but can he maintain his success?
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
Irish anti-Israel agitation is out of control
Anti-Israel sentiments among Irish nationalists are irrational and opportunistic
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power