We need a green diet that’s not half-baked
Blog for the Food Ethics Council on the merits and flaws in EAT-Lancet’s ‘planetary health diet’.
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Category: Articles & Essays
The incoherence of evidence-based policy
Values, not data, are the basis of policy. The job of evidence is to inform policy-making to maximise the chances that any given reform achieves the ideological goal. It cannot tell us what that goal should be.
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Health, housing and happiness
The flourishing of pensioners today is not biological destiny, but the fruit of decades of public policy.
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John Humphrys’s dismal legacy
After 32 years on BBC Radio Four’s flagship news programme, Today, John Humphrys has told the Daily Mail that he is “assuming” he’ll leave the programme this year. Unfortunately, his legacy will be a style of interviewing that has made our news media less, not better equipped to give our politicians the scrutiny and interrogation a healthy democracy needs…
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The Ethics of Interrogation
I’ve contributed an essay to Media Ethics, Free Speech, and the Requirements of Democracy edited by Carl Fox and Joe Saunders. It’s about the importance of how media interviews with politicians are conducted for a healthy, accountable democracy.
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