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
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
(DTB) Don’t Trust Boris
The former prime minister is up to his old tricks
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
Get smartphones out of school
Young people desperately need a break from social media
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
A matter of life and death
It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life
Just the tonic
Rediscover the forgotten treasure of Australia: fortified wines
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
Murders for November
Another mélange of murders, from Japan to Scotland
An actor’s story is a late career marvel
Cleverness is a virtue in itself but is never sterile or without purpose
