Velvet Glove, Iron Fist

I was on the (relatively) new Guido Fawkes Show talking about sin taxes in the Budget, what bans I'd scrap and British Summer Time. All the old favourites. You can catch up below.

The state-funded prohibitionist pressure group Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) has published a report claiming that “the UK’s illicit tobacco market is now only a fraction of the size ...

The latest Nanny State Newsletter has gone out to all the subscribers to my Substack and you can read it here.

It must have been at least ten years ago now, but I remember watching a BBC compilation of humorous moments from its late-night current affairs programme Question Time. Bloopers and gaffes, as Danny Baker would call them. Studio lights going out, people storming off, accidental innuendos. Anything can happen on live TV! Sticking out like a sore thumb amongst the light-hearted...

The end of the COVID-19 pandemic left a hole in the lives of two groups of people. The first are those who loved the pandemic because it allowed them to flaunt their hypochondria. They have largely disappeared but they can occasionally be spotted, fully masked up, sounding the alarm about things like monkeypox. The second are those who loved the pandemic because it all...