Prohibition
The bitter truth about the sugar tax
There is nothing to savour in its results
The public health playbook
Talk of a “tobacco playbook” is pure projection
We should filter out anti-smoking hysteria
It is nonsense to claim that some cigarettes are not safer than others
Is smoking cool again?
Attempts to stamp out cigarettes could be having unintended consequences
The blind ideology of public health
Minimum pricing has failed, so why is it still promoted?
Food for thoughtlessness
The march of the public health puritans continues
Taking the liberal mask off prohibition
The case for the Tobacco and Vapes Bill is morally and economically unsound
Crossing the public health Rubicon
Are there any limits to statist safetyism?
Defending an outdoor smoke
There is no rational argument for prohibition
Nesta, I detest ya
An engine of innovation has become a puddle of inanity
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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
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
The right-wing case for social media
X and other platforms can be vital sources of unfashionable information and dissenting opinions
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
When art took on fascism (and lost)
Abstract activist concerns have overshadowed aesthetic production
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
It’s time to see Brexit through
The next government must finally drag Britain out of the European Union’s tractor beam
Vera, the doctor who defied Rasputin
A female surgeon in the chaos of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie