Thursday, 2 July 2026
End the licence fee to save the BBC
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T here is a new element to the BBC’s World Cup coverage this year. At some point in every match, the commentator will earnestly remind vie...
Thursday, 25 June 2026
HMRC is still downplaying the illicit trade
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HMRC put the latest tobacco tax gap estimates out on Tuesday. As with the previous few years, they defy both belief and mathematics. Only 1...
Tuesday, 23 June 2026
The world won't listen
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I spoke to Rohan Pike, the founder of the Australian Border Force’s Tobacco Strike Team, about his country’s black market tobacco nightmare....
Friday, 19 June 2026
More sausage action
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Inside the Sausage Factory remains free to download and I've written an article for Cap-X about how rational actions lead to irrationa...
Thursday, 18 June 2026
Tales from the sausage factory
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Today sees the release of my new book Inside the Sausage Factory: The Illusion of Evidence-Based Policy-Making . The title is a reference ...
Tuesday, 16 June 2026
Hockney's war on the dreary
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I've written about David Hockney's anti-nanny state activism for Spiked . I had always hoped to meet him (he attended a few FOREST p...
Monday, 15 June 2026
Uninventing the internet
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Keir Starmer's attempt to build legacy is, like Blair and Sunak's, a ban, this time on kids using social media. I've written abo...
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