Embarrassingly poor EU policy-making – follow the rules and do a proper job on e-cigarettes
From behind closed doors in Brussels, an utter mess is emerging from the EU on regulation of nicotine containing products such as …
When cancer charities cause cancer, who is responsible?
@Clive_Bates @Threthny @Orionvapes @Hifistud Date of guilty knowledge passed for snus v cigarettes? Should be sued for lives lost? — …
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Saving lives in Sweden, banned by the EU: experts call for change to smokeless tobacco policy
Spreadsheet data, charts and sources and look at this too.
Environment and conflict in Sudan
I’ve moved to the Sudan… and I’m sitting under a fan in Khartoum writing this… I’ve now been here a …
Asking the wrong question – biofuels
I don’t want to do a full scale critique of biofuels – not least because that would be to enter …
Do not ditch the Kyoto Protocol
My otherwise peaceful morning slumber was disturbed by a radio interview announcing that social scientists Steve Rayner and Gwin Prins …
Severn barrage – flawed economics
Sometimes you can be wading through a report and hit something that abruptly tells you it isn’t really worth reading …
The Merton Rule – an investigation
Once it was famous only for the ’70s Mod-revival band, The Merton Parkas. And, frankly, it wasn’t that famous even …
Case for the Severn Barrage – does it hold water?
There’s speculation in the papers [last weekend’s Guardian, earlier in the Independent] that the government is to back the Severn …
It could be worse – winter fuel payments
In my last post I asked for nominations for a worse policy than the proposed ‘Health in Pregnancy Grant’. An …