Velvet Glove, Iron Fist
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Dewi Evans' unpublished letter to Private Eye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 '...
Tuesday, 4 November 2025

See you in Hell, European Alcohol Policy Alliance!

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Some excellent news from Brussels where the European Commission is pulling funding from more NGOs...   Eurocare announces closure of its Br...
Monday, 3 November 2025

The big lies of ASH

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  ASH News Hazel Cheeseman, the head of Britain's most dishonest pressure group ASH, has taken to the pages of The Grocer to tell small...
Friday, 31 October 2025

Desperate gamblers?

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   I'm not sure why the Lords were talking about gambling this week, but it seems that they were because Natalie " brain fade ...
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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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