As two more tobacconists go up in flames in Melbourne , the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) can no longer deny the illicit tobac...

The vape tax consultation closes today, so hurry if you want to respond to this awful idea (which Labour is also keen on). Clive Bates has ...

The UK Temperance Alliance Institute of Alcohol Studies has had a go at updating a 2003 Cabinet Office estimate of the societal cost of alc...

I picked up a copy of Ultra-Processed People in paperback to see what Chris van Tulleken has been up to and he seems to be gettng worse.   V...

The final episode of the second series of The Swift Half came out yesterday. It features Lord (David) Frost who, amongst other things, negot...

 A new article from me at The Critic ... There is one gambling-related suicide in the UK every day. There are up to 496 gambling-related su...

No matter how bad things get in neo-puritan Britain, they can always get worse.   The Labour MP Rachael Maskell has put forward an amendment...