I was sadder than you might expect to read that Graham MacGregor has died, aged 84. The Telegraph focuses on his anti-salt advocacy, but yo...

I've written for the Morning Advertiser about the drink-drive limit after receiving a press release from a company called AlcoSense. Yo...

I was delighted to share a stage with Prof Mario Rizzo, co-author of  Escaping Paternalism  and other fine works, at the IEA earlier this ye...

Gambling with lies   Loyal readers may recall that Public Health England misused a study of Swedish hospital patients to make the claim that...

No horse racing today in Britain. Find out why at the Snowdon Substack .    The subplot to all this is that the anti-gambling lobby have bee...

Yawn .    Food industry lobbying is leading Labour to drop public health plans, experts say   How could they possibly know that? Lobbying is...

I have written before about why HMRC's estimates of illicit tobacco sales are demonstrably wrong and greatly underestimate the size of ...