The bully state (w/ Christopher Snowdon)
Enjoy your guilty pleasures while you can
Writer and researcher Christopher Snowdon joins Ben Sixsmith to discuss smoking, vapes, obesity and all kinds of prohibitionism.
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The poverty of anti-smoking laws
Smokers are not a drain on the economy
Disposable vapes and the race to prohibition
The state should enforce existing rules, not ban disposable vapes
The sad side of “smokefree”
Let’s not pretend that there are no benefits to smoking
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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
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
No bullshit government
Tom Jones grills the shadow minister for
policy renewal about the plans of a
future Tory administration
The revolt against the public
The establishment cannot accept ordinary citizens having power
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
The Mexican baby business
In UK courts, parental orders for children born overseas outnumber those born to surrogates here
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny