Tuesday, 10 February 2026
Scottish client journalism
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Via Taking Liberties , I see that Scotland's Sunday Post has been publishing some anti-smoking slop ahead of the country's 20th ann...
Friday, 6 February 2026
Economic nationalism in 'public health'
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Some 'public health' academics have given a surprising endorsement to economic nationalism, as I discuss in The Critic ... A fter ...
Thursday, 5 February 2026
What the hell is Impact Unfiltered?
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L ast November, I reported on the EU’s plan to force member states to levy punitive taxes on e-cigarette fluid and nicotine pouches. The ...
Wednesday, 4 February 2026
Minimum pricing in Wales - a textbook example of policy failure
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As in Scotland, minimum pricing in Wales had a sunset clause so it could be repealed if it didn't work. As in Scotland, it didn't wo...
Tuesday, 27 January 2026
Drink beer, smoke tabs
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Studies like this are so contrary to 'public health' dogma that it's amazing that they get published at all these days. But eve...
Monday, 19 January 2026
Money for almost nothing
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Last week I wrote for The Critic about the Sheffield University alcohol research group continuing to get government grants rolling in des...
Selling zero-alcohol drinks to kids
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Labour is weighing up a crackdown on people under 18 buying ‘no and low-alcohol’ drinks. On current form, this means Keir Starmer’s govern...
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