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articles by Rob Lyons
Wednesday 22 May 2013
A bug-eyed view of culinary pleasure
Being corralled into eating beetles and wasps to save the planet is enough to put you right off your food.

Monday 20 May 2013
Is the EU now just a satire on itself?
The EU’s latest mad ban is revealing, suggesting it doesn’t even trust ordinary people to pour their own olive oil.

Thursday 16 May 2013
The non-parochial case against the European Union
It isn’t only Little Englanders who should rage against the undemocratic EU – so should those who care about the continent and its peoples.

Thursday 9 May 2013
The new EU directive: quit smoking or die
New rules from Brussels effectively banning low-risk alternatives to cigarettes, like e-cigs, will cost lives.

Wednesday 1 May 2013
Eurocrats with a bee in their bonnets
It seems the bee has replaced the whale and the polar bear as the friendly face of green authoritarianism.

Friday 26 April 2013
A junk outlook on processed food
In his new book about mass-produced foodstuffs, Michael Moss dresses up a rancid view of firms and consumers as investigative journalism.

Monday 15 April 2013
We need a bit more hunger to end poverty
Claims that climate change will cause mass starvation could actually make it harder to feed the world.

Friday 12 April 2013
A junk outlook on processed food
In his new book about mass-produced foodstuffs, Michael Moss dresses up a rancid view of firms and consumers as investigative journalism.

Tuesday 9 April 2013
One cheer for Labour’s new welfare policy
Basing welfare entitlements on an individual's work history is a good idea. Let's explore it.

Wednesday 3 April 2013
Lies, damned lies and hockey sticks
The exposure of yet another dodgy piece of climate-change alarmism shows the need for serious scepticism.

Thursday 28 March 2013
Climate change:
an elite affectation

Rupert Darwall’s history of the idea of global warming shows how the belief in an impending manmade apocalypse emanated from the top of wealthy Western societies.

Wednesday 27 March 2013
This barking at politicians is getting boring
Eddie Mair’s humiliation of London mayor Boris Johnson was a triumph for anti-political cynicism, not journalism.

Monday 25 March 2013
Have politicians had a mental blackout?
There’s a real risk of energy shortages in Britain, yet still the political class is obsessed with cutting fossil fuel use.

Wednesday 20 March 2013
Adopt a polar bear? Have you seen what they do?
How did the polar bear, a vicious killing machine that is thriving, become the poster boy of climate-change alarmism?

Wednesday 13 March 2013
‘Yes, some food is better than other food’
Rob Lyons answers readers’ questions on Jamie Oliver, food snobbery, and his very own tuna pasta surprise.

Thursday 7 March 2013
Another day, another
overblown food scare

The claim that eating processed meat will kill you is built on shoddy evidence and more than a dash of snobbery.

Wednesday 6 March 2013
The immorality
of ‘sin taxes’

In a speech in Westminster, Rob Lyons called on the state to butt out of the public’s eating, boozing and smoking habits.

Friday 1 March 2013
Are one-in-five Britons really living in poverty?
A new book casts a sceptical eye at today’s poverty claims, and offers some thoughts on how people might be made wealthier.

Wednesday 27 February 2013
The real downgrade is in economic expectations
Moody’s decision to withdraw the UK’s AAA rating is not a shock or a disaster, but it is a sign of policy failure.

Monday 18 February 2013
A 10-point plan to deal with meddling medics
It’s not obesity that requires urgent action, but the rising tide of miserable public-health busybodies.

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18 June 2013
Roll up, roll up – watch Nigella being strangled!
13 June 2013
Twitter: #FreeSpeech or #EthicalCleansing?

14 June 2013:
Why should we care about The Stone Roses?


7 June 2013:
We don’t want a Time Lord for our times