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Jason Walsh
How smokers’ rights are being vapourised
The anti-smoking lobby has now targeted electronic cigarettes in order to crack down even on the ‘notion’ of smoking.
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| Tuesday 1 May 2012 |
Rob Lyons
The rationing of medical treatment is really sick
Withholding healthcare from smokers and fat people is a pretty grotesque attempt to strongarm everyone into the so-called Good Life.
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| Monday 30 April 2012 |
Ken McLaughlin
We don’t want to be ‘empowered’, thanks
The fad for empowerment in social work and politics is really about making people comply with state diktat.
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| Monday 23 April 2012 |
Sandy Starr
Is autism just another identity?
ESSAY: With so many people being added to the ‘autism spectrum’, a disorder is being transformed into a lifestyle.
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| Monday 16 April 2012 |
Michael Baum
Where have all the pink dollars gone?
A new breast cancer-awareness doc is too focused on conspiracies to grasp the real travesty of ‘pink think’.
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| Monday 26 March 2012 |
Patrick Hayes
Minimum pricing means minimising choice
Ramping up the price of booze won't change drinking habits, but it will squeeze just a little more freedom out of life.
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| Friday 10 February 2012 |
Tim Black
‘Comedians have a right to be offensive. But they should also be funny’
The father of a girl with Down syndrome talks to spiked about prejudice, liberty and Frankie Boyle.
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| Thursday 9 February 2012 |
Nathalie Rothschild
Freedom of religion is not a right-wing thing
The debate about Obama’s ruling on birth control in healthcare packages shows that many liberals are now worryingly sniffy about religious liberty.
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| Thursday 19 January 2012 |
Sadhvi Sharma
India’s inspiring war on polio
The massive human effort that helped make India polio-free shows that greater wealth brings greater health.
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| Wednesday 18 January 2012 |
Rob Lyons
First they came for the smokers...
The remorseless illiberal logic of the ‘we don’t like it, so ban it’ lobby is now leeching its way into the lives of meat-eaters.
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| Thursday 5 January 2012 |
Patrick Hayes
Down with feminist fearmongering!
Feminists are exploiting the ‘exploding breasts’ panic in the name of having a pop at cosmetic surgery.
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| Tuesday 3 January 2012 |
Rob Lyons
Welcome to the Nagging Health Service
Some health fanatics want everyone from GPs to hospital porters to lecture to us about our lifestyles.
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| Tuesday 13 December 2011 |
Philip Alcabes
AIDS and the rise of
the behaviour police
After much self-congratulation amongst safe-sex crusaders on Worlds AIDS Day, Philip Alcabes says their scaremongering was far from a good thing.
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| Thursday 8 December 2011 |
Rob Lyons
The latest BS about the Big C
A new British report claiming that nearly half of cancers are caused by our lifestyles should come with a health warning of its own.
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| Thursday 3 November 2011 |
Michael Baum
Does breast screening do more harm than good?
A new UK review of the benefits and harms of screening is welcome, but what we really need is better evidence.
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| Tuesday 18 October 2011 |
Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
Note to NHS: stop treating the public with contempt
With nothing to say about the paternalism and authoritarianism of the UK health system, the Save Our NHS protests seem wilfully out of touch.
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| Tuesday 11 October 2011 |
Rob Lyons
Dying to scare the life out of us
Life expectancy has shot up in recent years. Why are public-health miserabilists insisting it will soon start falling?
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| Tuesday 4 October 2011 |
Rob Lyons
This obsession with fat is really taxing
Denmark has introduced a ‘fat tax’ - but what business is it of governments to tell us what we should eat?
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| Thursday 29 September 2011 |
Nathalie Rothschild
Michael Bloomberg’s new Prohibition Era
New York City’s health-obsessive mayor is tearing up personal freedoms in his war against smoking, fast food and sugary drinks.
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| Thursday 22 September 2011 |
Rob Lyons
The return of the Mockney Missionary
When a billion people remain malnourished, it’s perverse for Jamie Oliver to bang on about a ‘global epidemic’ of obesity.
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