NPR editor suspended without pay after saying the news organization no longer has an ‘open-minded spirit’ resigns. theguardian.com/media/2024/apr…

You won’t want to miss the new episode of the Swift Half with Snowdon. It’s Adrian Chiles! m.youtube.com/watch?v=9P1VqY…

Rob Halfon enjoying a massive cigar in the East India Club's cigar room last night just hours after voting to ban future generations from ever doing so.

Liberty is dying under the Tories | The Spectator spectator.co.uk/article/libert…

Cannabis was banned in Britain in 1928. Where is the cannabis-free generation? 🤔

This was the nearest Newsnight got to a libertarian perspective this evening.

This is the absolute dog’s dinner MPs voted for today.

🚭 🗣️ 'What your going to obviously see here is a very slow but steady growing black market.'

Christopher Snowdon 🇺🇦 discusses the generational smoking ban and its impact on criminal activity on @GBNews 👇

🍿Tory party source this evening voices fury at the Government's handling of the smoking rebellion:

'At least 165 Conservative MPs didn't vote for the PM's flagship policy tonight, beyond even internal expectation management. It's reflective of a wider problem.' 1/2

I rarely plug my books on here but it seems timely to mention that I wrote rather a good history of the doomed attempts of tyrannical rulers to go ‘smoke-free’ since 1492. amazon.co.uk/Velvet-Glove-I…

Head of Lifestyle Economics at IEA Christopher Snowdon says the Government’s claim that the smoking ban will cut NHS costs is “not true.”

“The ageing population is the thing that’s going to bring the NHS down, not smoking.”

Mike Graham 🇬🇧

Sounds like lobbying to me.

It is certainly 'entirely consistent' with some sort of mind virus that has swept across the West lately.

Why is the party of Churchill banning smoking? Because the Tories are now full of unprincipled authoritarians with barely a bright idea between them. Sunak’s smoking ban is a fitting epitaph to a truly awful government, says Christopher Snowdon
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Not a single ‘liberal’ democrat voted for liberty? How are they allowed to use that name for their party?