World Health Organisation
Anti-smoking own goals
Puritan anti-nicotine policies are successful only in propping up the tobacco industry
Five reasons WHO must be rethought
A crisis mustn’t be allowed to let WHO lay us to waste
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Bach in black
CPE Bach: Berlin Symphonies (BIS)
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
Will Andy Burnham be a literary leader?
Burnham is a rare politician who reads books — but how will they affect his premiership?
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
The old age elephant in the room
Does Andy Burnham seriously think that he can fix social care?
Will Andy crash and Burnham?
The Manchester man is going to face the same constraints as Keir Starmer
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
Lost railway art
Art should matter in all its guises, above and below ground
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna