Scott Benton
Scott Benton is the Conservative MP for Blackpool South
Don’t criminalise support
The government should change course on Clause 9
When is suicide not suicide?
The vulnerable need our support, not lethal drugs
Web of lies
We can combat misinformation with scepticism and content provenance technology
Slavery did not create Britain’s wealth
A bogus narrative is obscuring history and diminishing our national pride
It’s the only one for me, nicotine
Once again, public health fanaticism is being prioritised over simple pleasures
A bitter pill
Women and girls are losing medical advice and safeguards in the name of “freedom”
The problem with securonomics
A genuine strategy for increasing our economic security and resilience as a society would not start with the state
All smoke and no fire
An Impact Assessment on prohibiting cigarettes is unconvincing
Therapy is making children ill
What would really help children’s mental health is talk about resilience
Free speech freeze-up
Reactions in Britain to the attempted suppression of NatCon suggest a bleak future for freedom of speech and thought
The lonely end of a political failure
Leo Varadkar rode to power on a wave of optimism and is disappearing in a puff of disaffection