Christopher Snowdon

Why no-fault evictions shouldn’t be banned

13 February 2024 2:29 am

A decade ago, left-wingers started using the phrase ‘zero hours contracts’ to refer to what had previously been known as…

Banning disposable e-cigarettes won’t stop kids vaping

29 January 2024 10:53 pm

The government thinks it has finally found a popular policy. Better still, it is a policy that it can implement,…

Why did it take so long to give Tim Martin a knighthood?

1 January 2024 4:02 am

The news that Tim Martin, the founder of JD Wetherspoon, has been given a knighthood in the New Year Honours…

KFC is right to take on the public health zealots

7 December 2023 9:06 pm

There was some good news for the people of Sunderland last month when local councillors managed to stop a small…

Sunak has doomed Britain to a total ban on smoking

29 November 2023 6:59 pm

It is an indictment of the intellectual vacuum in British politics that when a prime minister is looking for a…

The many flaws in Sunak’s smoking wheeze

5 October 2023 1:50 am

In the run-up to the Conservative party conference, Rishi Sunak was promoting himself as a serious politician who wanted workable…

Rishi Sunak is right to get rid of 20 mph zones

29 September 2023 11:42 pm

Are we seeing the real Rishi Sunak at last? Since telling the nation on 20 September that his government will…

Snus

23 September 2023 9:00 am

As the government considers banning disposable vapes because they are thought to appeal to children, it is worth reflecting on…

When will the Scottish government get a grip on alcohol deaths?

30 August 2023 12:37 am

Is there any amount of evidence that could convince the ‘public health’ lobby that one of their bright ideas didn’t…

Reintroducing wolves to Britain is pure insanity

16 August 2023 1:15 am

Should we release packs of ravenous wolves into the English countryside? The answer is so obviously ‘of course not, are…

Is it time for Britain to leave the WHO?

10 June 2023 9:00 am

Is it time for Britain to leave the WHO?

The unstoppable rise of the nanny state

31 May 2023 9:44 pm

It has been a pathetic sight to watch politicians pleading with the supermarkets to lower food prices. Inflation has yet…

Jonathan Portes – my part in his downfall

23 March 2023 9:36 pm

In 2018, the Equality and Human Rights Commission commissioned and promoted a report which predicted that an extra 1.5 million…

Why is the British Medical Journal investigating the Beano?

3 February 2023 1:20 am

One of the regular characters in Viz is an old woman called Meddlesome Ratbag who goes to great lengths to…

Is sharing cake in the office really like passive smoking?

18 January 2023 8:10 pm

‘If nobody brought in cakes into the office, I would not eat cakes in the day, but because people do…

Why does Jamie Oliver always get an easy ride?

28 December 2022 3:10 am

There are many annoying things about the celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, but none of them grates my gears as much…

It's time to stop turning the clocks back

29 October 2022 5:15 pm

British households could save £400 a year if we left the clocks alone this weekend instead of putting them back…

The anti-drinking lobby’s twisted logic

15 July 2022 9:30 pm

In 2018, the Lancet published a study from the ‘Global Burden of Disease Alcohol Collaborators’ which claimed that there was…

Is this the last gasp of the Covid state?

30 April 2022 8:47 pm

In the week ending 15 April, there were 644 deaths registered in England and Wales involving Covid-19 as the underlying…

Is this the real reason Boris introduced Covid restrictions?

10 December 2021 12:05 am

If a day is a long time in politics, 36 hours is a lifetime with this government. On Tuesday morning,…

Do we want the nanny state tracking our every step?

25 October 2021 11:00 pm

The best thing that can be said about the government’s latest anti-obesity scheme is that it’s cheap. For now. The…

The WHO’s bizarre war on e-cigarettes

31 July 2021 9:00 am

The WHO’s fervent campaign against e-cigarettes

A salt and sugar tax doesn’t make much sense

17 July 2021 8:41 am

What is the point of the National Food Strategy? When Henry Dimbleby was hired as Britain’s ‘food tsar’ several years…

Boris's junk food crusade is absurd

25 June 2021 9:13 am

The government is to ban ‘junk food’ adverts before the 9 p.m. watershed as well as restricting online food ads. Boris…

The insanity of Britain's housing market

20 May 2021 1:49 am

On the day the Office for National Statistics announced a sharp rise in consumer price inflation, albeit to a still…