Prohibitionism
It’s the only one for me, nicotine
Once again, public health fanaticism is being prioritised over simple pleasures
Don’t ban the billboards
Campaigns against advertising are pure public health fanaticism
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar
The public health fanatics have a new enemy in their sights
Don’t take the vapes!
Will there be no end to the government’s embrace of prohibitionism?
The end of another prohibitionist myth
There is no good evidence that adverts for alcohol increase consumption
“Public health” doubles down
Prohibitionists are never satisfied
The anti-gambling house of cards
Gambling and the simplistic dogma of public health
Why we should question the charge of “Islamophobia”
Valid criticism of beliefs and behaviour should not be equated with hateful bigotry
Moroccan gold
Enjoy some of the finest food ever eaten at the exquisite Farasha Farmhouse
Why Labour has the best history books
Labour continues to blunder down that long blind Blairite alleyway, unable to turn back or find an exit
Britain was not built on slavery and imperialism
At least in its current, extreme interpretation, the Williams Thesis is almost certainly false
The 15-minute bait and switch
15-minute cities mean restricted freedom and a town hall traffic-fine bonanza
Great Lives — great, The Essay — awful
Radio 3 maintains its course towards self-destruction
Against gorpcore
We have to develop and embrace aesthetics that inspire the imagination
Kilkenny’s golden age
A fascinating exploration of Irish history could have been better and more comprehensively illustrated
Jonathan Glazer’s speech was an affirmation of Jewishness
Critics who accuse him of denying his identity have things backwards
The spy who came in from the coast
Defector Natalie Elphicke leaves the Circus to join the pinkos
Scratches in the stonework of history
A new history of graffiti and rebellion is less light and bawdy than one may have expected
