Velvet Glove, Iron Fist
Tuesday, 30 September 2025

"Nicotine control" and the WHO

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I wrote about the WHO for the Telegraph over the weekend. One of its Regional Directors has said that he wants to "erase" alcohol...
Thursday, 25 September 2025

Plain packs for vapes

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The one-club golfers in 'public health' want plain packaging for vapes because of course they do. I've written about it for The ...
Tuesday, 23 September 2025

A ban on lying

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A new law is going through Parliament to ban public officials from misleading the public. It sounds like a good idea, but it has the potenti...
Friday, 19 September 2025

The lifestyle medicine of Aseem Malhotra

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  Taking a rare break from trying to free Lucy Letby, Private Eye 's Phil Hammond has written a justified excoriation of the star turn a...
Wednesday, 17 September 2025

Are problem gamblers four times more likely to attempt suicide?

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As reported in the Independent ...    Problem gamblers four times more at risk of suicide attempt by age 24 – study   This is exactly how th...
Tuesday, 16 September 2025

RIP Graham "mad dog" MacGregor

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I was sadder than you might expect to read that Graham MacGregor has died, aged 84. The Telegraph focuses on his anti-salt advocacy, but yo...
Monday, 15 September 2025

Drink driving and the bootleggers

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I've written for the Morning Advertiser about the drink-drive limit after receiving a press release from a company called AlcoSense. Yo...
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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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