Online gambling isn’t bad for the economy
Is there an economic case for prohibitionism? No
Crossing the public health Rubicon
Are there any limits to statist safetyism?
The bizarre campaign against Physician Associates
The interests of doctors are being elevated above the interests of patients
Champagne in the membrane
Alcohol is not a major risk factor for dementia
Playing God with our grub
Hey, Public Health England, leave our food alone
Gambling with the numbers
A new survey of problem gamblers has serious problems of its own
Tough on smoking, tough on alternatives to smoking
We should give smokers healthier options, not no options
Less smoking, more cancer?
Yet more nonsense from the public health lobby
Being economical with the truth
The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (& How It Came to Control Your Life). By George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison
Nesta, I detest ya
An engine of innovation has become a puddle of inanity
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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
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
Cofnas, Cambridge and academic freedom
Truly provocative ideas are still unwelcome in our universities
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Sexy sisters and holy hotties
Less Sister Simper, more Attila the Nun