Link Tank 07/05

In case you haven't already fired up the barbie.

Mexico's sugar tax hasn't worked

A billion lies

The decriminalization of sex work is a feminist issue

Departing Mayor Boris's finest moments on camera

The surprising health benefits of drinking beer

Letting kids walk to school is "terrifying" apparently

New York bans bars from refusing serving alcohol to pregnant women

Model socialist Venezuela faces a beer shortage

KFC launches chicken-flavoured nail polish

Brad Pitt the parasitic wasp

Link Tank 23/04

Back after a short absence, here are some interesting articles from the last few weeks.

Shaman's revenge: Our romance with tobacco

The liberal case for leave

Teenagers should "chill out, seize the day, have a drink"

The misogyny in nanny statism

What in the world constitutes a standard drink?

When sex is not a crime, why should sexting be?

A brief history of temperance in Scotland

'Good fat,' low cholesterol, may not be so good after all

McDonald's trials all you can eat fries

Link Tank 02/04

Not guaranteed to be April Fool free

There’s been a Tweet but, worry not, DCI Taggart is on the case

What Brexit means for vaping businesses

As the UK revealed to be 3rd worst nanny state in EU, Germany gloats

If we want to be best for business, we must leave the EU

Psychoactive Substances Act suspended while MPs work out what they've banned

Of course kids should watch Watership Down

Is this the end for CAMRA?

Alberta bans coloured outdoor Christmas lights

Japan invents electric 'salt-flavoured fork'

Burger King release the hottest ever UK burger

Nit-picking monkeys

Link Tank 26/03

Spring links.

Scotland's smoking ban "was just the start of an assault on our everyday freedoms"

"The global ‘war on drugs’ has harmed public health, human rights and development"

10 reasons why the sugar tax is a terrible idea

Kids need to waste time

Why some restaurants are banning doggy-bags

How a Burger King advert became a symbol against terrorism (pic)

Teetotal vegetarian Jeremy Corbyn presents award at British Kebab Awards

The Hot Cross Bunny Burger and other London Easter dishes

British brewer wins court battle against Champagne industry to sell his new 'Champale'

City birds are cleverer than country ones

Link Tank 19/03

Here y'are.

Harm reduction, state, and Utopia

"Public health wants a compliant population, not an informed one"

Osborne's sugar tax is another punishment on the poor

What actually happened with plain packaging in Oz

Sucker Taxes - how we're fooled into believing a tax is good for us

Let London party

Chicago bans chewing tobacco at sports events

“When all the main political parties are in agreement, beware! beware! beware!”

Domino’s unveil 'world’s first' pizza delivery robot (pic)

How to run a beer mile

Vegetarian spiders

Link Tank 12/03 - 300th Edition

Yep, that's how many there have been since the first links round-up in January 2010. Here is this week's selection.

Can nicotine be good for you?

Sacrificial lambs

The most damaging gateway to hard drugs? Drugs policy itself

Father Jack vs the anti-fun police

The smoking ban doesn't apply to prisons ... but they're gonna do it anyway

Save the Sunday roast from the gastro-bore brigade! (pic)

Charities Commission tell charities to stay out of EU referendum campaigning

Banned in Pakistan: A muslim porn star’s sexual crusade

The best beers to enjoy with your Easter egg

KFC opens first outlet in Tibet

Grammar pedant tits

Link Tank 05/03

Of interest this week.

Sport and the looney medics

People who harmfully attack e-cigarettes need to quit

Nine deceptions in our history with the EU

Climate change isn’t starving us

The evolution of New Zealand's pizza industry (pic)

China bans gays, extra-marital affairs, witches, drinking and smoking from TV

Porn viewers more likely to see women as equals than non-viewers

School sticker wars

Sydney taxi driver fined by police for wearing wrongly coloured shoes

Body-building beer

Happy humming gorillas

Link Tank 27/02

It's been a busy week in Puddlecoteville, may have missed a lot.

No wonder Britain’s alcohol guidelines are so extreme – just look at who drafted them

Love democracy? Then leave the EU

"Every batshit stupid comment you’ve ever heard from the anti-vaping brigade has been struck down"

Smoking and vaping bans are stupid

Utah Senate declares pornography a ‘public health crisis’

Ilford woman banned from sitting on the ground

Is Burger King's delivery service any good?

Screaming for a beer

Vienna police fine man €70 for 'loud belch'

Penguins on a treadmill

And here's Aussie Senator David Leyonhjelm on political donations. Pfft!

Link Tank 20/02

Read all about it.

The pleasure principle

The smoking ban could spark a long, hot summer in English prisons

"The wrongheadedness of the anti-sugar campaign"

Should you eat breakfast? The jury is still out

No one who still smokes cigarettes in 2016 is going to be moved by punitive measures

Ireland laughs at Sally Davies over alcohol limits

California rejects condom rule for porn stars

Why we get a kick out of eating chilli (pic)

McDonald's all day breakfast is hurting competitors in the US

Austria's beer hot tub

Boxing ants

Link Tank 13/02

The weekly link dump.

The argument for the legalisation of cannabis has been won. Now for the difficult bit

Twitter’s new ‘Safety Council’ makes a mockery of free speech

A sugar tax is anti-consumer and anti-business

Sally Davies accused of 'eroding pub culture'

This could be the best tourist attraction ever!

Indonesia bans gay emojis (pic)

Man eats at every McDonald’s restaurant in London in one day

Health and Safety Executive to sue Star Wars

Watching porn to save the whales

iPod watching mice

Link Tank 06/02

Links of interest in the past fortnight.

Democracy, latter-day Luddites, and Uber

Mexico’s two-year-old sugar tax is failing

Should anything be 'beyond a joke'?

You have already beaten Sally Davies at the game of life

Would the last person in Sydney please turn the lights out?

Russian leftist MP demands graphic warnings for fast food

US security services want to ban internet anonymity

Pizza Hut celebrate the Super Bowl with a 24 carat gold topping

The most boring playground in the world (pic)

Politician hit in the face by a flying dildo

Drug-addled coyotes

Link Tank 23/01

News of the unapproved.

Want!

Dave’s nannying is not Conservative

New scandals hit anti-e-cig activists

The head of the NHS uses nanny statism to hand his staff a pay cut

Why you should care about porn politics

McDonald’s launches bottles of Big Mac special sauce (pic)

MPs urged to support beer duty cut

While snobs attack fast food, perhaps they should look at their restaurants instead

Saudi Arabia's highest Islamic cleric 'bans' chess

Imagine the most serious but unlikely things that could happen, and panic about them

Problem gambler rats (good grief, DP)

Link Tank 16/01

They picked themselves this week.

Public health was once about saving us from illness, not from ourselves

We must sacrifice joy for the sake of our health

Modern safe space culture will never produce anyone like David Bowie

"The Tobacco Wars are not fought based on real science or honesty"

Why China can't quit tobacco

Huxley vs Orwell

The face you can't avoid in China (pic)

New US law says kids can walk to school by themselves

Montreal bar serves Duff beer and Flaming Moes

You snooze, you lose

Dancing dinosaurs

Link Tank 09/01

Top two come highly recommended. Enjoy.

Where has all the joy gone?

Don’t let the public health zealots demonise us innocent drinkers

How to make sex work safer in 2016

Who wants a sugar free life?

Public health is an inherently dishonest discipline

Lessons from a Brighton tobacconist (pic)

The Big Mac Index, what does one cost around the world?

Netflix and chill on your drive to work

Morocco bans mobile internet phone calls

Pizza Hut launches its own clothing range

How the cat got its coat (and other furry tails)

Link Tank 02/01

Links that reflect the time of year.

The rise of the health jihadists

2015, the year we tried to ban everything

Snobs don't take Christmas off

On the wibblings of an incompetent Telegraph Science Editor

Canada boasts the world's first professional beer athlete

McDonald's unveils its restaurant of the future

Despite ban, Iranians consume 60 million litres of alcohol each year

What happens when you light 10,000 sparklers at once (pic)

Russian 'dies' drinking vodka, wakes in morgue, carries on drinking

Masturbation verb tops 2015 Swedish word list

Solving the mystery of dog domestication

Link Tank 26/12

Boxing Day link dump.

The inconvenient truth about e-cigs

In defence of Ebeneezer Scrooge

How to drink in New York

Admit it, you just want your own dictator

A Christmas nativity tale

No way! In a manger?

France's nanny state sparks fresh debates

Somalia bans Christmas, New Year celebrations

Santa robs KFC

Robot reindeers

Link Tank 19/12

Better late than never.

Booze-hating prohibitionists need to give up the boos

Elite scientists can hold back science

US teens smoking and drinking less than ever before

Misguided health advice could be killing us

The Tobacco Products Directive: worst. sequel. ever.

Sex, love and robots

Brazilian court lifts the country's ban on Whatsapp

The history of the Christmas card (pic)

Brewery delivers beer via reindeer-driven sleigh

The top 8 fast food stories of 2015

Generous dogs

Link Tank 12/12

An odd week indeed.

'Tis the season to be sneering

The enduring and damaging consequences of prohibition

New e-cig study reveals crisis in journalism

Obesity is not like terrorism and the NHS cannot be bankrupted

Legalise weed to tackle obesity!

South Ayrshire councillors throw out street cafe smoking ban

The grapes of death

Lollipops to be distributed outside Mayo nightclubs

Amazon Prime offers booze delivery in Manhattan

KFC to open in Tibet

Test tube puppies

Link Tank 05/12

'Ere y'are.

If Britain votes to leave the EU, the BBC will be at least partly responsible

We need the right to make 'wrong' choices

How a year of UK porn laws have affected lives and the industry

New York's next nanny state battle: Salt wars

8 reasons athletes drink beer (and why it's a good thing)

BMJ study calls for laws to restrict size of food portions, plates and cutlery

Pamela Anderson set to be Playboy's last ever nude model (pic)

Atheist group claim hotel room bibles as dangerous as smoking

Get your Pizza Hut degree in Manchester!

When squirrels attack

Link Tank 28/11

Of an evening for a change.

Jamie Oliver should stop playing politics and get back in the kitchen

Teaching kids to fear their parents

Should we ban yoga?

If you like authentic foreign food, you're a racist apparently

Don't sneer at Black Friday, consumerism is wonderful

The 16th century origins of food porn (pic)

Swedish court rules that Pirate Bay cannot be banned

McDonald's Japan launches the 48 McNugget meal

Rihanna to start her own brand of weed called MaRihanna

Introducing bacon-scented underwear

Koala sex

And a healthy dose of common sense from Lenore Skenazy