This week the IEA published a new study I wrote, looking at the extraordinary social experiment of lockdown and what … Continue reading “Lessons from lockdown for (anti-)alcohol policy”

When minimum unit pricing was introduced in Scotland in May 2018, it became illegal to sell alcohol for less than … Continue reading “An evaluation of Scotland’s minimum alcohol pricing experiment”

As a history of the British economy since 2008, The Decade the Rich Won (BBC2/iplayer) has a number of flaws. … Continue reading “Review: “The Decade the Rich Won””

YES – says Alexander Hammond It is unlikely that most Britons will be rampant classical liberals by 2030. Still, for … Continue reading “IEA Debate: Will the 2020s be a good decade for classical liberals?”

MPs will vote today on the Health and Care Bill. This legislation has much to commend it to Conservative MPs. … Continue reading “The Health and Care Bill: nanny statism on steroids”

My colleague Kristian Niemietz recently commissioned an opinion poll to get the measure of Millennials and Zoomers. He concluded that … Continue reading ““Millennial Socialism” is not Bolshevism – it is a confused and shallow knee-jerk socialism”

A study published in JAMA Pediatrics this week looked a ban on e-cigarette flavours implemented in San Francisco on 1 … Continue reading “The empirical evidence is clear: anti-vaping policies are pro-tobacco policies”

There was a moment in Gogglebox a few weeks ago which, as so often, captured the mood of the nation. Watching Boris … Continue reading “The case for moving the lockdown roadmap forward”

Some countries allow you to buy a beer at any time day or night. Others have total prohibition. The enormous … Continue reading “WHO is your nanny?”