Public Health
How bad is the news on booze?
And how bad are the ideas for curbing consumption?
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
The meaningless models of “public health”
Another brick in the “public health” fortress of unreality
A new low in anti-vape scaremongering
There is no great risk of oral cancer among vapers
Is public health a protected belief?
A new case will decide if prohibitionism in the name of public health constitutes a philosophical belief under the Equality Act
Good news is bad news for public health experts
It implies that there is no particular need to panic
The end of another prohibitionist myth
There is no good evidence that adverts for alcohol increase consumption
A bitter pill for public health
The sugar tax has not worked as intended
“Public health” doubles down
Prohibitionists are never satisfied
Soothing sounds in time of war
There are expectations going back to 1948 that musicians turn up to provide relief
Don’t ban anti-Israel marches
Principled and pragmatic arguments for prohibition are weak
The scandal of screens
Parents are ill-equipped to fight the power of Big Tech over children’s lives — they desperately need the law to be on their side
Too much disinformation
Mariana Spring is back, with another series to set the songbirds a-twitter
The love that dare not speak its name
Classical music has been tarnished with the dread word “elitism”
Stopping the devolution ratchet
More devolution will not solve the worst consequences of devolution
The long and winding road
Join us on our journey down the roads of the 1800s
Pseudoscience exacerbates the burden of disease
Victims of ME deserve better than dopey Dragons and ear seeds
The cost of dissent
Brave women have sacrificed a lot to stand up for their gender critical beliefs
W.S. Gilbert
A wildly funny and slyly subversive comic genius who deftly skewered the mores of Victorian England
Sleepwalking towards abolishing abortion law
How can a crime be a crime if it implies no consequences?
