Health bureaucrats and activists, backed by nanny-state politicians, are prosecuting a 'war on obesity'. That the statistics -- the untampered statistics, that is -- do not support their claims matters not. Once again, we're seeing a bid by self-anointed to dictate how the rest of us must eat, drink and live

Take a responsible drink, as most of us do, and you will surely have noticed those hectoring, state-mandated posters behind the bar advising that alcohol is a curse. Call it neo-wowserism, this selective puritanism of the modern Left, and brace for yet more laws intended to protect us from ourselves

The memory-challenged president of the Australian Human Rights Commission has done the nation a great service, albeit one she never intended. In pursuing a cartoonist and blameless university students she has served as a reminder of free speech and those who seek to crimp it