Public Health
The costs of cost-benefit analysis
We have to be more sceptical about the use of data in governance
We should filter out anti-smoking hysteria
It is nonsense to claim that some cigarettes are not safer than others
Is smoking cool again?
Attempts to stamp out cigarettes could be having unintended consequences
Fat chance
Projections about obesity are hard to swallow
No, vaping is not as dangerous as smoking
There is no good evidence to support scaremongering
Gambling is not the business of “public health professionals”
The concept of “public health” should apply to collective risks, not individual choices
The blind ideology of public health
Minimum pricing has failed, so why is it still promoted?
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
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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
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
The dead-end art of conspiracy
Should art dissect conspiracy theories or immerse itself in them?
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
Crushing the real progressives
The Islamic Republic of Iran, now under fire from the demonic West, is the most progressive society on earth