Commenting on the High Court’s ruling against tobacco companies’ challenge on plain packaging rules, Christopher Snowdon, Head of Lifestyle Economics … Continue reading “Ruling on plain packaging: a bad decision on many levels”

Commenting on the Queen’s Speech, Mark Littlewood, Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs said:  “The Queen’s Speech provided … Continue reading “Queen’s Speech lacked meaningful direction”

Commenting on the decision by the ECJ to uphold a law that will standardise packaging and ban the advertising of … Continue reading “TPD: Regulatory overreach from the EU”

Yesterday saw the publication of the first ever Nanny State Index. It looks at 32 criteria and 28 countries to … Continue reading “Britain is amongst the EU’s most meddlesome nanny states”

The Rt Hon Norman Lamb MP, former Minister of State for Health and current Liberal Democrat Health Spokesman, sat down … Continue reading “In Conversation With… Norman Lamb MP”

The government has today announced that charities, quangos and pressure groups in receipt of government grants will be prohibited from … Continue reading “IEA welcomes the end of state-funded lobbying”

The evidence for taxing soft drinks – or any other source of calories – as a means of reducing obesity … Continue reading “Sugar taxes defy basic economics, argues new report”

Taxing food and soft drinks in the name of obesity is not a new idea. Dozens of jurisdictions have experimented … Continue reading “Sugar taxes: A briefing”

Rumours abound that the government is secretly quite keen on imposing a new tax on sugary drinks, to attempt to … Continue reading “A sugar tax would only make the UK tax system more incoherent”