Public Health
The anti-gambling house of cards
Gambling and the simplistic dogma of public health
Revisionist lockdown history
The public health establishment is being whitewashed over COVID
Low nicotine, low profits
Well, that’s the end of ultra-low nicotine cigarettes
Why public health has become a dirty word
The field has been hijacked by a politicised and self-serving class of experts
Vapegoating e-cigarettes
Why do we believe the worst about e-cigarettes?
Prohibitionist alchemy
More alcohol advertising does not mean more drinking
Public health porkers
COVID lockdowns do not excuse endless authoritarian measures
UnSAGE Covid Jeremiahs
Our lives have been in the hands of these glorified numerologists for too long
Boris’s war on obesity will fail
The government’s new anti-obesity crusade will not tackle obesity, only obesity statistics
Who do we think we’re kidding with the NHS?
Someone somewhere damaged this country very badly
All in the family
Most likely, we live in a comfortable nest of light fictions
Ironic fascism
Taboo-breaking counterculture paved the way for the return of the very fascism it claimed to subvert
The joy of pets
Pet ownership is one of life’s simple pleasures, but it also lifts the soul
The worm (re)turns
Dune: Part Two is in cinemas — and it’s more of the glorious same
Chasing votes on foreign soil
Viktor Orbán has created a pipeline of support for his Fidesz political project by granting full citizenship to thousands of ethnic Hungarians in Romania
Silence speaks volumes
Lee Anderson speaks out — or, at least, gets someone else to do it for him
No joke
Scotland’s Hate Crime Act is absurd, but nobody’s laughing
The stench of Chanel No 5
Set mainly in Nazi-occupied Paris, The New Look tells the story of Coco Chanel and Christian Dior
A talented pianist and a battered piano
Bezhod Abduraimov: Shadows of my ancestors (Alpha-Classics)
Realism is not the same as self-pity
There is a limit to how much women can physically protect themselves from men
How we killed ideas and kept impressions
We have to rediscover ideas and not just the idea of ideas
