Christopher Snowdon

Christopher Snowdon is the head of lifestyle economics at the Institute of Economic Affairs. He is the author of Killjoys, Selfishness, Greed and Capitalism, The Art of Suppression: Pleasure, Panic and Prohibition Since 1800, The Spirit Level Delusion, and, Velvet Glove, Iron Fist. You can find him tweeting at @cjsnowdon

What exactly is wrong with processed food?

New regulations are not based on expertise

Henry Dimbleby’s new book doesn’t hit the spot

The closure of grammar schools entrenched privilege

Andrew Doyle has been warning about Critical Social Justice for years, and he kept the receipts

The problem with low interest rates

Why judge prohibitionists by their words when we can judge them by their actions?

The attack on Keir Starmer was not the result of Boris Johnson’s rhetoric

Our lives have been in the hands of these glorified numerologists for too long