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Monday, 2 December 2019

Shooting the medium - the Lancet versus #yes2meat

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Remember the EAT-Lancet diet that was promoted at great expense by the billionaire couple Gunhild and Petter Stordalen in January? It ca...
Friday, 29 November 2019

Bad predictions as political weapons

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When Iain Duncan Smith’s office was vandalised this week, certain apologists from the far-left argued that the crime was partially, if not w...
Tuesday, 26 November 2019

Norway's sugar tax flop

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Imagine the government raising the cost of living so much that it's cheaper to go shopping in Sweden . That's the situation Norwegia...
Monday, 25 November 2019

2019 manifestos - where do the parties stand on the nanny state?

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With an election looming, I have been through all the party manifestos looking for nanny statism. As has become traditional, the lowlights a...
Thursday, 21 November 2019

Is the USA coming to its senses on e-cigarettes (and cigarettes)?

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After an insane few months, there are signs that the USA is coming to its senses ... President Donald Trump has reversed plans to...
Friday, 15 November 2019

Charity begins at home for nanny state academics

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Last year, I wrote about a peculiar piece of junk science which claimed that a modest change to Chile's sugar tax had a dramatic effe...
Thursday, 14 November 2019

The bottomless 'public health' money pit

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The IEA has a new report out about money being squandered overseas on 'public health' nonsense. I'll discuss it tomorrow, but t...
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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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