Incredible scenes in Australia where illicit sales officially now make up 80% of the tobacco market. I wrote about this for The Critic ... ...

Extended Producer Responsibility is a boring name for a boring regulation, but it is worth understanding if you want to see how the govern...

I said that the gambling levy would provide a slush fund for spongers and activists, and it has.   Dozens of pieces of research have alrea...

Action on Smoking and Health's former CEO Deborah Arnott famously insisted that...   "the 'domino theory' i.e. that once a ...

I knew things were bad in Australia but this graph really show how dramatically the black market has grown since the tobacco turf war took o...

I wrote this last week for The Critic ...   N ot since the early 1980s has the government had such a stranglehold over economic life in Bri...

It's time to laugh at the Aussies again.    The article is here . The delusion and hubris is strong in this one. Australia hasn't be...