Friday, 22 November 2024
A bad time for a bad obesity prediction
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All you have to do to produce an obesity forecast that will be published in a medical journal is draw a straight line through the recent pa...
Monday, 11 November 2024
Not Invented Here (2): alcohol
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Doctors have been advising people to have several days without alcohol each week for decades. It is sound advice because, as the British Li...
Wednesday, 6 November 2024
Not Invented Here (1): obesity
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This month I'll be writing a series of articles about Not Invented Here Syndrome - when institutions reject practical solutions because ...
Tuesday, 5 November 2024
Has vaping backfired? (No)
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H as vaping backfired? That is the question asked by Sunday Times journalist Tom Calver yesterday. He claims that rising e-cigarette use ...
Wednesday, 30 October 2024
Rachel Reeves' taxes on working people
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Not entirely unpredictably, taxes and spending are set to go through the roof after Labour's first budget since 2010. Having promised ...
The Guardian view on gambling
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It looks like the Guardian has let its anti-gambling correspondent Rob Davies have a go at writing a leader. The Guardian view on gamblin...
Tuesday, 29 October 2024
Sin taxes and the Laffer Curve
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It's the Budget tomorrow. Either Rachel Reeves has being engaging in some epic expectation management or if it is going to be the mother...
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