Velvet Glove, Iron Fist
Thursday, 11 June 2026

Activist-academia

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I talk a lot about "activist-academics", but what other word can you use when a professor is literally recruiting young people, tr...

Vaping and lung cancer

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A study was published this week claiming that vaping causes lung cancer. The journal has helpfully published the peer review comments. One r...
Monday, 8 June 2026

Game over for Australia

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Incredible scenes in Australia where illicit sales officially now make up 80% of the tobacco market. I wrote about this for The Critic ... ...
Wednesday, 3 June 2026

Extended Producer Responsibility, more government failure

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Extended Producer Responsibility is a boring name for a boring regulation, but it is worth understanding if you want to see how the govern...
Tuesday, 19 May 2026

The anti-gambling slush fund

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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...
Monday, 18 May 2026

Introducing Action on Gambling

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Action on Smoking and Health's former CEO Deborah Arnott famously insisted that...   "the 'domino theory' i.e. that once a ...
Thursday, 14 May 2026

Australia's tobacco tax disaster

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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...
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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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