Health
The globalisation of sin taxes
The FCTC is a revealing exemplar of the unaccountable global quangocracy
Low nicotine, low profits
Well, that’s the end of ultra-low nicotine cigarettes
Vapegoating e-cigarettes
Why do we believe the worst about e-cigarettes?
Public health porkers
COVID lockdowns do not excuse endless authoritarian measures
The dissenting doctor
A leading psychiatrist is worried that a new government bill threatens his groundbreaking talking therapy for gender dysphoria
Minimum pricing, miserable results
Minimum pricing has not succeeded even on its own terms
In defence of booze
The dangers of alcohol are being overstated
Sport’s injury crisis
Sport is starting to wake up to its silent problem
Meat and morals
Ethical carnivores need to start thinking like vegans
The worth of disabled lives is weighed in the womb
Sir Brian Souter’s comments about disability abortion are tragic but true
Alexandre de Moraes is no hero
Don’t make X an ex-X
Why Trump triumphed
The Democrats had too many self-inflicted disadvantages to overcome
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
EDI corrodes the rule of law
Embedding EDI in the work of barristers makes for bad law, not a good society
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama
Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow
Stick ‘em up
Has the culture war been won?
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
