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Thursday, 18 November 2010

Stamping out free speech on campus

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Brendan O'Neil has written a great piece at Spiked about the frankly fascistic tendency of students to stamp out free speech on campus....
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On a clear day you can still see the evidence

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Because of the significance of secondhand smoke (SHS) to the anti-smoking movement in the last thirty years, part of my research when writin...
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Wednesday, 17 November 2010

Scrap it, shut up and move on

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I read a piece in Sunday’s Observer newspaper supporting a letter from anti-tobacco campaigners that appeared in the paper on the same day....
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Saturday, 13 November 2010

Some stupid news and some rather good news

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From the pages of the  Daily Mail  comes a reheated dollop of public health nonsense: Fat tax 'is the best way to cut obesity': Tr...
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Don't annoy the Serbs

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Yesterday , I suggested that the Serbian smoking ban was not particularly rigorous when compared to the draconian legislation of the English...
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Thursday, 11 November 2010

Pursue the truth wherever it leads

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An anonymous commenter has alerted me to an article in the Financial Times   calling for an end to "propaganda disguised as science...
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Another typical smoking ban

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Welcome back. After three weeks in India and two weeks in techno limbo, do I even have any readers left, I wonder? A fortnight without int...
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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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