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  • Government plan for cig crackdown is too weak

    The government’s plan to make it even more difficult to market and sell cigarettes doesn’t go anything like far enough. Personally I think they need to do something serious, such as ban the word “cigarette” which sounds far too innocuous, even friendly. Surely “paper based tobacco smoke inhalation system” would be a better term? We…

  • The Clegg era starts here

    Notwithstanding my gripe on Thursday, Nick Clegg has had a very good week. He started by putting the finishing touches to his front bench, made a series of appointments regarding reforming party structures (about which I must get around to blogging about it detail at some point), made a well-judged debut at PMQs and has…

  • BBC undersells major medical breakthrough

    According to the BBC today: Smoking while pregnant reduces the fertility of boys by affecting a key testis gene, researchers say. Hold the phone – did I miss a memo? How long has male pregnancy been available on the NHS?

  • The true enemies of reason

    I saw Richard Dawkin’s two-part documentary The Enemies of Reason a couple of weeks ago and I’ve been meaning to add a note of criticism here. It’s not that I disagree with his assessment that people such as spirit mediums and alternative health gurus are not antithetical to enlightenment values; far from it. My problem…

  • Doughty news values (UPDATED)

    Originally posted May 29, 2007 @ 18:16 Despite coming from a different political galaxy, I wish 18 Doughty Street every success if nothing else than for the fact that if it works, it opens up the possibility of other, more politically sympathetic, rivals. It really needs to work out what its agenda is however. One…