Lobbyists
Public health and the eternal paternalist
Public health can be a Trojan horse for anti-capitalism
The slick glide through the institutions
When values are outsourced to third-party organisations, everybody suffers
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Get ready for the worst World Cup ever
FIFA is scoring a pathetic own goal with its treatment of football
Chopping The Onion
It is neither brave nor clever to portray dissenting women as insane
Red tape and black markets
Prohibition is a criminal’s best friend
Why Ed Miliband can’t change course
He would have to abandon his self-appointed role as an agent of progress
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Awards ceremonies are erasing women
Biological males should not receive awards intended for women
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project