Alcohol
Banning ads is mad and bad
Keir Starmer is embracing Sunakian petty prohibitionism
How to define a doctor?
Plus, what has moderate alcohol consumption done for us?
Against zombie prohibitionism
Public health fanatics are coming for your alcohol, lack of evidence be damned
Surprising reds from an old empire
Austria’s reds are rich in flavour, if not always heritage
The blind ideology of public health
Minimum pricing has failed, so why is it still promoted?
Real postliberalism starts in pubs
The state cannot be the source of community attachments and affection
Love, death and drink
Does inspiration really come out of a bottle?
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
Leave our pubs alone
New public health proposals are missing the pint
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Nice Tice
Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
Stop underestimating British tech
We should not surrender to the idea that American companies can do everything better
Homes for Ukraine — and everywhere else
Why were some non-Ukrainians far more likely to enter Britain under a scheme meant for Ukrainians?
The old age elephant in the room
Does Andy Burnham seriously think that he can fix social care?
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
David Lean
The cinematic genius admired by today’s directors
An indefensible defence policy
Why the country’s strategic ambitions are incompatible with our welfare bill
DeepMind delusion
The superstar Demis Hassabis is on a mission to create a God-like superintelligence
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something