Wednesday, 24 December 2025
Stay safe this Christmas with 'public health' advice
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A Christmas message from the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities Seasons’s greetings! Christmas is a time for eating, drinking an...
Tuesday, 16 December 2025
Australia's prohibition double whammy
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The government of South Australia has launched an anti-vaping campaign on social media aimed at impressionable youngsters. It features some ...
Friday, 12 December 2025
From harm reduction to harm elimination
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After the WHO anti-nicotine conference last month, I wrote ... It is very clear that the Bloomberg/WHO approach from now on will be to d...
Monday, 8 December 2025
Old Mudgie RIP
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I was very saddened to hear the news that the Pub Curmudgeon has died. He started blogging in July 2007, largely in response to the smoking...
Friday, 5 December 2025
The fantasy land of 'public health' academia
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This is pretty shocking. Seven 'public health' researchers looked at a survey which showed that self-reported alcohol consumption r...
Wednesday, 3 December 2025
The OBR is bad and HMRC is worse
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I've got a piece up at The Critic about the hopeless OBR and my struggle to get HMRC to face up to the size of the tobacco black market...
Friday, 28 November 2025
The WHO's "best buys" for alcohol
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I've written a briefing for Epicenter off the back of this year's Nanny State Index about the WHO's so-called "best buys...
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