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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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
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What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Confessions of a Yankee Anglophile
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The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
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angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
The cost of equal outcomes
By treating disparities in mental health detention as evidence of racism, the NHS is sacrificing safety
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe