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- The Bully State: another view
- Ministers can bury their heads in the sand, but the effect of the smoking ban has been devastating
- Rules, regulations and old hat
- Internet censorship is the ultimate curtain call for freedom
- In defence of the cigarette break
- Thirdhand smoke fever - another example of prejudice and propaganda
- Killing thinking: how political correctness taught us what NOT to say
- Tobacco company challenges cigarette vending machine ban
- The blurred distinction between public and private
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Smoking
Ministers can bury their heads in the sand, but the effect of the smoking ban has been devastatingTuesday March 2, 2010The government says there is no evidence that the smoking ban has caused the closure of pubs or bars. Patricia Gidlow begs to differ. |
Free Speech
Internet censorship is the ultimate curtain call for freedomTuesday February 23, 2010The current drive towards internet censorship, emanating from governments across the world, must be resisted if we are truly to be classed as ‘free’, argues Martin Cullip |
Smoking
Thirdhand smoke fever - another example of prejudice and propagandaFriday February 12, 2010Chris Snowdon, author of Velvet Glove Iron Fist: A History of Anti-Smoking, explains the “science” behind the latest anti-smoking scaremongering |
Free Speech
Killing thinking: how political correctness taught us what NOT to sayThursday February 11, 2010Dennis Hayes offers a guide to the arguments that academics, including students, use to kill open debate and critical thought |
Smoking
Tobacco company challenges cigarette vending machine banWednesday February 10, 2010Government’s decision to ban vending machines is so disproportionate that it must be challenged, says Imperial chief executive Gareth Davies |
Free Speech
Free speech and the court of public opinion: let the people decideThursday February 4, 2010John Terry’s “crime” was not cheating on his wife, says Suzy Dean, but trying to gag the press using a “super-injunction” |
Food and Drink
The fat of the landWednesday January 20, 2010Is it possible, asks Karen McTigue, for a single January to pass without the media falling prey to the urge to force us into abstinence of some kind or another? |
Taxation
Talking with the taxman about poetryMonday January 18, 2010Billy Bragg refuses to pay income tax unless the government moves to limit bonus payments at the Royal Bank of Scotland |
Food and Drink
This new puritanism would drive anyone to drinkSunday January 10, 2010As smokers told you they would, the puritans have now switched their censorious gaze from cigarettes to wine and beer, writes Nick Cohen in The Observer |
Motoring
Innocent driver admits offence to avoid cost of court defenceSaturday January 9, 2010A company director has admitted a motoring offence he says he has not committed after becoming one of the first to be caught by controversial new rules on court costs |