Public Health
Don’t let the government poach your pouch
A moral panic is brewing over nicotine pouches
Big Brother is talking to you
What is with London’s obsession for dystopian public address announcements?
The gambling suicides myth
The rate of deaths caused by gambling has been foolishly exaggerated
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
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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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
Police policies must be reformed
If we are to have policing “without fear or favour” then it is time for change
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
Classic is back
Why contemporary art may be losing ground
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Britain needs a moral core
The UK’s greatest vulnerability isn’t its weakened military but its lack of spiritual depth