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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Dewi Evans' unpublished letter to Private Eye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 ...
Wednesday, 29 October 2025

Look Back in Anger: The Conservatives and the nanny state

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I was on a panel at the Tory conference earlier this month discussing the nanny state with two (pretty sound) Conservative MPs. Much of it w...
Sunday, 26 October 2025

Tobacco prohibition and public opinion

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FOREST have released the results of a survey they commissioned to gauge support for the generational tobacco ban that is the centrepiece of ...
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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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