Public Health
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
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
Academic freedom needs legal safeguards
Violations of academic freedom are endangering the progress of knowledge and the pursuit of truth
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
Total eclipse of the art?
Activistic artists and curators are making art a niche political endeavour
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
Libyans, Parisians and London Irish
Dry-ish, spare, clear-eyed — rare in a world of literary bloat, sentiment and overstatement
Not a dull phrase
Ethel Smyth: 2nd sonata &c (Delphian)
From El-Alamein to Ukraine
How has the nature of warfare changed since World War Two?
The Candy Man can
The people’s party: now bankrolled by one of the country’s richest property developers
