Calories
There’s no evidence for menu calorie counts
Calorie counts on menus are thoughtless puritanism, masquerading as science
Playing God with our grub
Hey, Public Health England, leave our food alone
The meaningless models of “public health”
Another brick in the “public health” fortress of unreality
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Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
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A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
Why Keynes was wrong
He misinterpreted fundamental economic principles
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
The end of encrypted Europe
Europe’s latest Chat Control may see child protection become a pretext for wider surveillance.
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
The art of statesmanship
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