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Tuesday, 25 November 2025

What happened at COP11?

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The WHO's big anti-nicotine bash is over and the delegates have long since taken their first class flights home. So what happened? As us...
Friday, 21 November 2025

The WHO is a billion dollars in the red

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  Among the many lowlights at this year's WHO anti-nicotine shindig was the Framework Convention Alliance giving New Zealand the Dirty A...

"Good riddance" is not an economic policy

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Sky Bet is relocating to Malta where it can enjoy an effective corporation tax rate of around 5 per cent rather than the 25 per cent it is...
Sunday, 16 November 2025

COP 11 starts this week

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The WHO’s big biennial tobacco conference kicks off this week in Geneva. A global tobacco conference wouldn’t be a bad idea right now. In...
Friday, 7 November 2025

Black market gambling

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Following yesterday's blog post , I bring more news from the dumpster fire of Select Committees. The Treasury Select Committee has publi...
Thursday, 6 November 2025

Chris van Tulleken and the slippery slope

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  I suspect that if more people saw what goes on in Select Committee meetings there would be an armed insurrection. I've watched two rec...
Wednesday, 5 November 2025

Dewi Evans' unpublished letter to Private Eye

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Private Eye 's M.D. (Phil Hammond) is obsessed with the Lucy Letby case and has now published more than 30 lengthy (by Private Eye '...
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Christopher Snowdon
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Writer and researcher at the Institute of Economic Affairs. Blogging in a personal capacity. Author of Polemics (2020), Killjoys (2017), Selfishness, Greed and Capitalism (2015), The Art of Suppression (2011), The Spirit Level Delusion (2010) and Velvet Glove, Iron Fist (2009).
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