Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly (or, in this case, four-monthly) chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism...

Three days ago the British government announced a new scheme to inject obese people with weight loss drugs to try and tackle “worklessness”. Writing in the Telegraph – where...

Kit Knightly The “obesity epidemic” has been in the news a lot recently. That makes me suspicious. Now before we go any further let’s be clear I’m NOT advocating...