Health
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
Let the people smoke!
Life is boring enough without making it duller
Drill music’s token freedoms
Defences of free expression have become hopelessly unprincipled
Rite of autumn
Labour is celebrating the harvest and definitely not sacrificing pensioners in the hopes that the gods grant us plenty in the coming fiscal year
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
Rebus at the school of hard Knox
The tropes are popular, because they work
The warp and weft of women’s history
This synthesising project downplays the variety of experience amongst ancient women
Strictly Come Tory
Who will win the hearts of the nation?
In defence of the incredulous stare
To argue is to indulge in a practice, with all that this entails
One small step for Jenrick…
…one giant disappointment for Mel Stride
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation
Cities of the mind
19th century English towns live on in our collective imagination
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
