Public Health
Why won’t Chris Whitty go away?
He lingers on — a slap-headed Rasputin whispering terrible ideas into the ears of our leaders
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
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
Ultra processed arguments
Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
Leave our pubs alone
New public health proposals are missing the pint
A manifesto for the fun police state
The IPPR recommendations would do more harm to your freedoms than good for your health
Keir’s junk politics
Keir Starmer is trying to reform the public, not the NHS
Crossing the public health Rubicon
Are there any limits to statist safetyism?
The stress myth
Your emotions are not an illness
Burgundy on a budget
In search of the wine lover’s holy grail
The shame of the Oxford Union
A debate on Israel and Palestine was a disgrace
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
How to be realistic on Ukraine
There is a route to peace, but it will take compromise
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
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Kemi wants a correction, and Keir could appear on celebrity TV
Choosing enemies wisely
China manifestly wishes to avenge her past humiliation at Western hands
