Sponsored Post: Mark Pawsey: Brexit could be a victory for vaping and public health

E-cigarettes are a great innovation for public health, but they are threatened by bad EU regulation.

James Frayne: Is a Nappy Tax coming soon? How Hammond may raise more revenue when his Budget comes.

Public health and environmental health look the likeliest sources. Shifting everyone to the equivalent of PAYE and taxing the biggest businesses must also be targets.

Ben Bradley: To get the greatest benefit from extra NHS funding, resist the temptation to spend it all on hospitals

From community services and mental health treatment, to alleviating PFI debt, the extra cash must be used to prepare the health service for the future.

Rebecca Pow: Reconnecting young people with the natural world would bring benefits to mental and physical health

From creating more green and blue spaces, to GPs prescribing walks and gardening, nature can be a soothing, healing influence.

Steve Brine MP: The Government must act to protect children from energy drinks

Excessive consumption is linked to a broad range of problems, but our current consultation asks important questions to help us reach the right response.

James Brokenshire: A sustainable strategy to end homelessness for good

Sleeping rough is more than the lack of a bed; it’s a personal and social tragedy. How we respond to it is a litmus test for our society.

Tim Loughton: Mindfulness has a crucial role to play in tackling mental illness

Anything that is easy to administer and available to everyone at low cost has to be a useful aid in dealing with this epidemic.

East Sussex and Northamptonshire – very different cases

It is true that financial pressures will increase. But the scope for reform and innovation remains huge. Services do not need to be cut.

A vaping tax would kill people

It wouldn’t be a “sin tax”, it would be a tax penalising people for stopping smoking. The Treasury’s greed would have outweighed its logic.

Tony Devenish: The Local Government Association is wrong to demand tax increases

Demands for billions of pounds for extra adult social care spending lack credibility given the continued profligate spending in our town halls.

Sejal Bhansali: The Sugar Tax is a good start in improving dental health – but we should use education, too

Better information in schools, and perhaps even putting photos of rotten teeth on sugary drinks containers, might help.

Wollaston’s pudding taxes and bans on cartoon characters are the opposite of Davidson’s call for more joyful politics

It isn’t only flinty securocrats who find themselves in conflict with her positive message – moaning nannies should take heed, too.

WATCH: Wollaston on NHS spending – “The Government should find the money through extra taxation”

Former Downing Street adviser Sean Worth notes that “the NHS is currently more productive than it’s ever been”.

Fiona Bruce: England should follow Scotland and introduce minimum alcohol pricing

The social, medical and financial costs of excessive alcohol consumption are there for all to see. The answer is already known.

It isn’t just Labour the ‘gig economy’ needs protecting from

If Truss wants to recast British politics as a fight between Tory liberalism and Labour reaction, she’ll have to make the Tories liberal first.