Bans
It’s the only one for me, nicotine
Once again, public health fanaticism is being prioritised over simple pleasures
Don’t take the vapes!
Will there be no end to the government’s embrace of prohibitionism?
Social media can be good for young people
It has its risks, but what doesn’t?
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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
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
