'Fairytale world where madmen run riot'

If you only read one article today make it this one by Chris Snowdon:

Truly, tobacco control is a fairytale world where madmen and charlatans run riot. We can only hope that branches of real science are not so irretrievably corrupt ...

See: Junk and buffoons. Beautifully written and funny too.

Meanwhile, over on Conservative Home, columnist Henry Hill has this to say about the Scottish Government's decision to support plain packaging:

Prohibition, SNP style

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[John]

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good, will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. -- C S Lewis