Alcohol
Here be flagons
The temperance campaigners realised that a picture can achieve more than a thousand words of argument
How bad is the news on booze?
And how bad are the ideas for curbing consumption?
Alcohol and Islam
An English novelist travels the Muslim world in search of a drink
Is public health a protected belief?
A new case will decide if prohibitionism in the name of public health constitutes a philosophical belief under the Equality Act
Single-minded
Enjoy some new malt whiskies coming to market
The sad decline of London pubs
Or, why the hell can I not get a drink after 9?
The end of another prohibitionist myth
There is no good evidence that adverts for alcohol increase consumption
Wetherspoons is the heart of local Britain
Tim Martin deserves a knighthood for creating a triumph for real British society
The anti-gambling house of cards
Gambling and the simplistic dogma of public health
The bully state (w/ Christopher Snowdon)
Enjoy your guilty pleasures while you can
Is this what winning looks like?
Reform UK supporters are growing weary of infighting and weak rhetoric
John Swinney’s Isla Bryson moment?
The Scottish Government must be made to face the facts on sex and gender
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
Bar none
The fraud behind the Bar Standards Board’s “equality and diversity” drive
Which country?
Our rural landscape is much misunderstood
Don’t marry your cousin
And don’t knock culture wars — they can save lives
Exilic yearnings
Miklos Rozsa: violin concerto (LSO Live)
The blame, again, falls on Sinn Fein
The party responded appallingly to its press officer being accused of child sex offences
Liberal myths of the “good old ways”
Donald Trump’s foreign policy is not so very different from the Democrats’ imagined golden age of American leadership
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
In defence of the stiff upper lip
Emotional reserve in public does not mean neglecting our interior lives, it means being serious about them
