Team GB golfer Charley Hull has said the Olympic ban on smoking may harm her chances of a gold medal as cigarettes help her relax after an ADHD diagnosis last year.
Labour is "mission-driven", says Keir Starmer. But the last thing anyone should want is a Government with a mission, says David McGrogan. That's because a Government with a mission needs conscripts. That's you and me.
The insidious growth of 'nudging' as a subtle means of controlling democratic populations is undermining our freedom in the West. But there's an important reason it cannot work for long, says Prof James Alexander.
The mounting evidence of harms from lockdowns and vaccines has swelled the ranks of the sceptics. But principled opposition to coercion doesn't depend on efficacy or safety, says Nick Rendell.
The West used to know why we should obey the law – our Christian faith gave us the answer. But as the sea of faith continues to withdraw, the void is being filled by sinister ideologies, says Prof James Alexander.
David Bell says his tribe on the 'progressive Left' abandoned him during Covid as it lurched into authoritarianism. But he moved to Texas and found a new community with those who love freedom.
It is now in Prague where freedom of speech is tolerated, and it is in Britain where it is under assault, says Štěpán Hobza. Sackings and character assassinations have proliferated in the 'cradle of liberalism'.
Nearly six in 10 'top' 1% elite Americans believe there is too much individual freedom in America and more than two-thirds favour rationing food and energy to combat climate change, a shocking new poll has found.
Boris Johnson liked to see himself as a modern day Winston Churchill, perhaps no more so than when he imposed the first Covid lockdown on March 23rd 2020. But in truth that was the day he failed history, says Neil Datson.
Dr Thomas Crew marks the passing of a giant of the German resistance against Covid tyranny: Gunnar Kaiser, who has died from cancer at the age of 47.
