Remember school? Long and painful hours of disheartening top-down teaching from a professor who knows very well that none of his students have any interest what so ever in the subject at hand. Public schooling leaves an undoubted mark on people, and with drop-out rates at a record high, we need to fundamentally rethink schooling […]
Young Voices Podcast #73: Do French Smokers Need a Nanny?
I had the pleasure to talk to Stephen Kent from the Young Voices podcast about the last tobacco regulations in the European Union.
New Role: Editor-in-Chief of SpeakFreely.today
On Friday, I took over the post of Editor-in-Chief of the new blog of European Students for Liberty: Speak Freely. The website can be reached at http://www.speakfreely.today.
At the Launch of FOREST EU in Brussels
On the 31st of May, the smokers’ rights organisation FOREST launched its office in Brussels. FOREST EU intends on working with consumers and policy makers in order to defend the freedom of choice of people who enjoy tobacco. For the launch event, I gave a short interview for their promotional video. You can check it […]
Dat neit Anti-Tubak-Gesetz dreift Jonker op de Schwaarzmaart
Mat deem neie Projet de loi 7030, dee viru kuerzem an der Chamber gestëmmt gouf, setzt d’Lëtzebuerger Parlament déi nei Anti-Tubak-Direktiv vun der Europäescher Unioun ëm. De Grand-Duché wäert domat, wéi och aner Länner elo schon, de Schwaarzmaart beräicheren.
V srdci socialismus, v praxi volný trh. Paradoxy spolujízdy
This article has been translated into Czech for FinMag. You can check it out here. The original was an article published for Freedom Today. Co má ze spolujízdy spolujezdec? Cestuje levněji, často rychleji. Co má ze spolujízdy řidič? Pár peněz na benzin. Společníka, který ho nenechá usnout. Dobrý pocit, že si s někým rozdělí uhlíkovou […]
The State of Emergency: A Monster of Our own Creation
When former French president François Hollande declared a state of emergency in November 2015, after the horrific terrorist attacks in Paris, the government was clear on its intentions. Former prime minister Manuel Valls recommended the country remain in the state of emergency until ISIS was defeated. By that standard, it’s going to be a long time before civil […]
Really, another country that wants to ‘regulate the internet’?
On Saturday, the United Kingdom suffered its second terrorist attack in only a few weeks. Three assailants rammed a van into pedestrians on the very central London Bridge in London, killing seven and wounding 48 (21 are fighting for their lives in the hospital at this time). According to The Telegraph, the police fired […]
Boj proti kouření. Co nefunguje
This article has been translated into Czech for FinMag. It can be read here. The original article was published by Freedom Today. Byl to od francouzské vlády odvážný krok: první evropská země, která po australském vzoru zavádí jednobarevný obal pro všechny tabákové výrobky. Přechod na obaly jednotné, zelenkavé barvy si přála ministryně zdravotnictví Marisol Tourainová. Nový […]
11 главных вызовов для нового президента Франции Эммануэля Макрона
This article was translated into Russian for Reed Media. The original can be read here. 14 мая 2017 года бывший инвестиционный банкир и министр экономики Эммануэль Макрон вступил в должность президента Франции. Во время предвыборной борьбы его даже называли «самым либеральным кандидатом в президенты за всю историю», но на своем посту он столкнется с давними […]