Velvet Glove, Iron Fist
Friday, 20 March 2026

Had enough of 'experts'

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Things will be bad enough after the government doubles the price of vaping in October with its new vape tax without going full prohibition...
Wednesday, 11 March 2026

Secondhand vaping: the studies

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I've done a deep dive into the science of 'secondhand vaping' on my Substack (which you should subscribe to if you haven't ...
Tuesday, 10 March 2026

Chris Whitty vs fat jabs

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Our fun loving Chief Medical Officer thinks fat people shouldn't rely on Ozempic and should wait for "public health" to save t...
Thursday, 5 March 2026

People are different. Get used to it.

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I've written about how people are different for The Critic . It is a point that seems to elude those who talk about the gateway effect. ...
Tuesday, 3 March 2026

On the Matt Forde podcast

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It was my great pleasure to appear on Matt Forde's Political Party podcast last week. You can listen to it here . Here's his blurb f...
Monday, 2 March 2026

Britain's black market in tobacco is too big to ignore

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Figures published last week show that legal tobacco sales fell by 52% in the United Kingdom between 2021 and 2025. The volume of manufactu...
Thursday, 26 February 2026

Restless people

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The BBC has been unearthing cases of people behaving unusually after taking a drug for Restless Legs Syndrome. Since reporting the story ...
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Christopher Snowdon
United Kingdom
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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