Does vaping do more harm than good?
It seems improbable
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
Ultra processed arguments
Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
Gambling gifts
New reports on Labour and political donations miss the point
A manifesto for the fun police state
The IPPR recommendations would do more harm to your freedoms than good for your health
Keir’s junk politics
Keir Starmer is trying to reform the public, not the NHS
Online gambling isn’t bad for the economy
Is there an economic case for prohibitionism? No
Crossing the public health Rubicon
Are there any limits to statist safetyism?
The bizarre campaign against Physician Associates
The interests of doctors are being elevated above the interests of patients
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
BBC Verify’s Bangladesh blunder
In trying to combat misinformation, the BBC has spread its own
You reap what you sow
Poor Daniel Zeichner was left to face the outrage that the Budget had caused
Alexandre de Moraes is no hero
Don’t make X an ex-X
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
Revolution in the Academy
The quest for knowledge, not power, ought to guide academia
Conservatism needs environmentalism
What could be more conservative than conserving our natural heritage?
Still knocking on the door
For all the promises, subpostmasters are still waiting for compensation
The contested legacy of “Rocky Horror”
How should we interpret a film that is much more than a light-hearted camp classic?
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
The soaraway success of scoops and smut
Tabloid sensibility wasn’t just about visual presentation, it was also about the way stories were written
