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In this week's Spectator I have a rant about all those pressure groups you see quoted in all the papers pretty much every day. Some are small, obscure and marginal – Bright Blue, the think tank for Lib Dems who want...

I was listening to the BBC yesterday – why do so many of my angriest blogposts begin this way? – to a Radio 4 File On 4 investigation into the "tobacco lobby" and "plain packaging." We know why the BBC ran this...

Had you been listening to Radio 4 yesterday afternoon, you would have had the pleasure of being irritated by the most incredibly annoying Scotswoman attempting to argue that it was a bad idea for tenants on welfare to have...

My final post of the year is not about Global Warming. Or rather, it is, but only in the most tangential way. As the sharper among you will long since have recognised, the reason I bang on about AGW is not because I’m...