Velvet Glove, Iron Fist
Friday, 8 May 2026

Quiet, children. The grown ups are talking.

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Accelerationists believe that things have to get worse before they get better and that the faster things get worse, the sooner people will w...
Thursday, 7 May 2026

Public health scholars

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Some self-described "public health scholars" have called on doctors to stop talking in public about drugs that could save their li...
Tuesday, 5 May 2026

Not everything is a public health issue

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Is gambling advertising a "public health issue"? And if it is, then what isn't?  I've written for Spiked about this...  I...
Friday, 1 May 2026

The idiocy of MMT

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Emmanuel Maggiori has a book about Modern Monetary Theory out today. It's very good and I was delighted to sit down with him on Tuesday...
Thursday, 30 April 2026

The "stickiness" of betting shop customers

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It was only six months ago that  Carsten Jung from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) was telling the Treasury Select Committee...

Democratically Deficient Organizations

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With  Julian Morris  and  Roger Bate , I have written a short paper about  Democratically Deficient Organizations (DoDOs). We focus on the W...
Tuesday, 28 April 2026

Drinking on the job

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 “Churchill tries to find luck in drink, but the bottle distorts the view.” - Nazi propaganda, 1942   The online British public are having o...
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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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