levying flat taxes on food under the guise of 'public health' is a way of pricing the poor out of sustenance. even accepting paternalist justifications, these taxes will not discourage the wealthy from these foods. it only becomes a disincentive if you can no longer afford it
To everyone who has ever whinged about 'cancel culture' and political censorship - THIS is what it looks like. Serene, thoughtful, profound artistic expression being binned because politicians don't like the truth it tells. Shameful & terrifying.
Can we seriously talk about Prince Philip's death and the moralising that has been created around it? The reason many people, including myself, don't care about his death isn't because we're inhumane unempathetic people. It's because this man had zero role in many of our lives.
Two days after my sister was buried in the ground and before many other of the children had been laid to rest, Boris Johnson said that the calls for tighter gun controls were a “knee-jerk reaction” and a case of “something-must-be-doneism“.
He is not our ally.
Presumably so more people with humanities degrees can form expert opinions on epidemiology, more expert than, say, a group of senior professors of epidemiology