Alcohol
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
The government are banoholics
Banning non-alcoholic drinks for young people is as silly as it is pointless
Less than super models
The authorities must stop putting their faith in the bad science of “public health”
Against the Guinness cult
It is time we stopped making so much fuss about a distinctly average beer
Bad public health research could drive a man to drink
No, alcohol consumption has not spiked since the pandemic
Have we got alcoholism wrong?
A new book contends that our approach to alcohol addiction can be irrational and unhelpful
Let our pubs live
The government should recognise how important pubs are to society
Prohibiting pints instead of doing politics
Reducing the drink-drive limit will sound good and achieve nothing
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed