Prohibitionism
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
Red tape and black markets
Prohibition is a criminal’s best friend
Why we love pubs
Politicians are squeezing pubs out of existence without understanding why they matter
The gateway myth
Does one risky lifestyle choice lead to another or are some people just different?
Against the vape ban
The case against vapes is still nothing but hot air
How “smoke-free” went up in smoke
The campaign against vaping has been miserably counter-productive
Disengaging from the stakeholders
Prohibitionists seem not to like active citizens who disagree with them
The government are banoholics
Banning non-alcoholic drinks for young people is as silly as it is pointless
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
The praises of a neglected vegetable
Summer calls for cold cucumbers
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
The battle between sacred and profane
When the divine law appears to clash with our sense of justice, can it truly be considered divine?