Is sharing cake in the office really like passive smoking?
‘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?
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
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
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?
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?
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?
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
The WHO’s fervent campaign against e-cigarettes
A salt and sugar tax doesn’t make much sense
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
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
On the day the Office for National Statistics announced a sharp rise in consumer price inflation, albeit to a still…
The problem with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's war on obesity
With his little round spectacles and earnest expression, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is the Penfold to Jamie Oliver’s Dangermouse. Both men have…
Why 2021 could be the year of economic Armageddon
The British economy is wrapped in bandages – we won’t know whether the wound has scabbed or turned septic until…
Nicola Sturgeon's Covid prohibition
So now we know the threshold at which Nicola Sturgeon pulls the trigger. If the number of daily hospital admissions…
The true cost of coronavirus on our economy
The economic scars of Covid will define the decade
Farewell, Public Health England
Farewell, Public Health England. Hello, National Institute for Health Protection. As expected, the hammer has fallen on the agency that…
Boris Johnson's absurd nanny state crusade
If reports in today’s papers are to be believed, the government will propose a new raft of nanny state policies on…
The lost boys: the white working class is being left behind
Britain’s forgotten demographic
Boris's war on obesity is a mistake
In less enlightened times, an outbreak of a deadly virus was taken as a sign of God’s displeasure and would…
Beware the COVID-19 nannies!
COVID-19 has suddenly made much of the western public health establishment effectively redundant. Unused to dealing with infectious disease, we…
Coronavirus shouldn't be used as an excuse to expand the state
Since this is the nearest most of us have ever got to living under the Blitz, I’ve been re-reading George…
How Canada failed to smash the cannabis black market
I had forgotten how much I disliked cannabis until I found myself under its influence, in the rain, trying and…
The fat tax fallacy
James Cracknell, the athlete turned anti-obesity campaigner, was the subject of sniggering and derision in April when he said that…
