Gambling
The public health playbook
Talk of a “tobacco playbook” is pure projection
Gambling is not the business of “public health professionals”
The concept of “public health” should apply to collective risks, not individual choices
Hope and despair
It’s difficult not to be encouraged by attendance figures over Christmas
Gambling gifts
New reports on Labour and political donations miss the point
Online gambling isn’t bad for the economy
Is there an economic case for prohibitionism? No
The gambling suicides myth
The rate of deaths caused by gambling has been foolishly exaggerated
How big a problem is problem gambling?
Jolyon Maugham should not roll the dice on opposing GambleAware
Blinkered vision
The threat to racing’s future
“Public health” doubles down
Prohibitionists are never satisfied
The anti-gambling house of cards
Gambling and the simplistic dogma of public health
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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
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
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
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
No Keirs, only dreams now
With the prime minister on his way out, even his own MPs have discovered a fondness for him
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
Bring back literary vendettas
Grub Street thrived when
there was an “establishment”,
movements and feuds
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia