Nanny State
Don’t take the vapes!
Will there be no end to the government’s embrace of prohibitionism?
The evils of Panglossian prohibitionism
Banning the sale of tobacco would increase the black market in cigarettes
The bully state (w/ Christopher Snowdon)
Enjoy your guilty pleasures while you can
The poverty of anti-smoking laws
Smokers are not a drain on the economy
Disposable vapes and the race to prohibition
The state should enforce existing rules, not ban disposable vapes
Minimum pricing, miserable results
Minimum pricing has not succeeded even on its own terms
See it. Say it. Sod off!
Against the naggy state
The abnormality of nannying
Why do we assume that lost freedoms are universal?
In defence of booze
The dangers of alcohol are being overstated
The anti-gambling racket
New regulations are not based on expertise
Google has a history problem
As much as we might wish that history had been different, virtue cannot grow from the soil of falsehood
The conversion of St Lee
Never mind migrants converting, what about the MPs?
Death by a thousand regulations
British politicians are allowing unnecessary laws to ruin civil society
Operettas for the apocalypse
As we career merrily ever deeper into the end-times, what is the appropriate soundtrack for civilisational collapse?
Restoring sanity takes time
So many people have built their professional lives around gender insanity
The conspiracy illusion
Marianna Spring is looking at the finger, not the moon
It’s not rocket science
It all goes wrong when arts departments start imitating research universities
It is they who will surrender
We have all of tomorrow’s excuses today
Not everyone has a novel in them
Literature is the only art in which, it seems, every neophyte is convinced they can succeed
Hero of the hour
Giles Watling asked the question that was on nobody’s lips, as he rushed to the Prime Minister’s rescue
Stop blaming Brexit for Britain’s economic ills
It is not only wrong — it distracts us from our real problems
