The Misdirection of the Fat Police
Focusing on obesity distracts from the real reasons we’ve had such high death rates
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
“Treatment” does not make child predators safe
People who abuse children must be kept away from children
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
Cofnas, Cambridge and academic freedom
Truly provocative ideas are still unwelcome in our universities
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
An unpleasant man, and a genius
The most interesting people are not necessarily the most attractive
How to save a church
Social media stunts, however well intentioned, will not rescue our churches