I have never been fond of the term “demerit good”. It bestows the objective language of the economist onto something that is fundamentally s...

The government has announced some extraordinarily harsh restrictions on what kind of food can be sold in food. I've written about it for...

I've got a new paper out with the IEA about a growing trend in the British economy: command capitalism.   Download it for free.

I've started doing a nanny state newsletter for my Substack subscribers (free). There's no particular schedule but they've been ...

There are supposedly 80,000 child gambling "addicts" in the UK. This is based on a tiny proportion of school kids self-reporting t...

A s laws become more preposterous and governments intrude ever further into the private lives of individuals, you might expect the public ...

The government sent a noisy alert to every mobile phone in Britain on Friday to tell us not to light a barbecue. I have written about it for...