Saturday, 31 August 2019
The economics of preventive health
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I'm at the Big Tent Ideas Festival today talking about public health spending. The blurb for the event is as follows: There is an ol...
A few facts about the UK economy
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I'm on a panel at the Big Tent Ideas Festival today discussing this report by the IPPR which proposes 'fundamental reform' to ...
Friday, 30 August 2019
Warnings on individual cigarettes - another scrape of the barrel
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It looks like the tobacco control industry has settled on health warnings on individual cigarettes as their next make-work scheme. The idea ...
Tuesday, 27 August 2019
The nanny state - why do we put up with it?
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I was interviewed by Douglas Carswell for his Room for Thought show recently. Check it out.
Thursday, 22 August 2019
Public Health England's great chess board
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Yesterday, the Daily Mail reported the findings of a study which found that packaged food in the UK is healthier than it is in eleven othe...
Wednesday, 21 August 2019
Does alcohol really cause breast cancer?
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The anti-alcohol lobby got very excited in April when a Mendelian Randomisation (MR) study suggested that there are no overall health benefi...
Tuesday, 20 August 2019
The madness of food reformulation
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I've written about the government's food reformulation ruse for Spiked ... At the heart of the reformulation delusion is an igno...
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