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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 Spiked... 

The nauseating thing about the national alert...


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This is pretty basic economics but apparently it needs spelling out…

Sponsorship deals go to the highest bidder. If the highest bidder is excluded from the process then the organisation that is looking for a sponsor will have to take the next highest bid, which will be lower.

The upshot of banning a whole industry from sponsoring football clubs, for example...


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Andy Burnham thinks he can save the high street by stopping bookies and vape shops opening. I disagree. 

The idea that the high street can be revived by killing off the few remaining businesses that are able to operate on it is just silly. These companies are not taking up shopfronts that WH Smith (now TG Jones!) is desperate to use. They are on the high street becau...


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ASH are still playing dumb about the illicit tobacco market. It's possible that they're not playing and are, in fact, dumb. The state-funded prohibitionist pressure group has been having a pop at Japan Tobacco International (JTI) for commiss...

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Last week, the BBC publicised the results of a study which claimed that sugar consumption in early life increases the risk of dementia. People wh...


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