Alex Stafford: What we can learn Colombia from about tackling a white powder problem

A model from abroad about how to deal with sugar problems without taxing it.

Parliament should make more use of sunset clauses

The Health Select Committee wants to automatically scrap its proposed sugar tax if it doesn’t work. This should be normal legislative practice, but it needs an attitude change.

Hugh Byrne and Lucy Mowatt: The case against a tax on sugar

The Conservative priority must instead be to ensure health policy is guided by experts in the field of nutrition, not enthusiastic amateurs spouting sound bites instead of science.

Why Hunt might be wary of his sugar tax report

The Government has a sound case against such a regressive measure, but its accommodation of the public health lobby has left it without space to make it properly.

Public health vs private life: It was never going to end with smoking

There is nothing uniquely evil about tobacco: the precedents set in the crusade against it will be used in time against all our vices.

Should Red Ed have gone for a sugar tax instead?

The NHS is threatened by obesity, not mansions.