Smoking
The sad side of “smokefree”
Let’s not pretend that there are no benefits to smoking
Low nicotine, low profits
Well, that’s the end of ultra-low nicotine cigarettes
Vapegoating e-cigarettes
Why do we believe the worst about e-cigarettes?
The nicotine closet
Where are the smoking politicians?
Osborne’s joyless crusade
Are times not hard enough already?
The virtues of vice
There is always risk with reward
Let the people smoke!
Life is boring enough without making it duller
Coffey and cigarettes
Smokers have suffered enough
Gaspingly chic
The accoutrements of smoking are deathly cool
Match made in heaven
Once a habit that cut across class, smoking is now masochistic comfort for the dispossessed
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
“Trope” is not a synonym of “lie”
You cannot dismiss an argument by calling it a trope
Britain is at breaking point
The UK is experiencing existential challenges, but neither elitists nor populists offer a solution
Excluding Imran Khan is cowardly and wrong
Oxford University has made a serious mistake
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
Assisted dying and the suicidal
The culture around assisted dying could aggravate the thoughts of the suicidal
Can Macron survive?
France appears to be becoming ungovernable
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable
Who are the Scottish Conservatives?
The election of Russell Findlay to lead the Scottish Conservatives reveals a party that doesn’t know what it stands for
Lightweight Kate Winslet
Our most versatile of English roses must accept that one role is beyond even her
The reality of assisted dying, an open letter
A plea to MPs to vote against this dangerous law
