Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has issued an advisory linking the consumption of alcohol to cancer, and is recommending that ...

The nanny state lobby assured us that it was “evidence-based”. Backed up by public health academics, the government’s Impact Assessment assumed that it would lead to people consuming 41 ...

Institute of Economic Affairs suggests tax overhaul to boost lifestyle freedom in UK and repeal of sugar tax and smoking ban ...

All this to say, you don’t need to believe in an unconstrained free will to be concerned about the nanny state. State of the Union: The premier’s near-decade in power came to an end in the ...

The government’s ban on advertising foods deemed unhealthy is a big fat win for the nanny state, but it will end up costing us, says John Oxley Christmas is coming, and that means a deluge of ...

Houston police "initiated a high-speed chase to pursue a suspect evading arrest for paying $40 to solicit sexual activity from another adult," notes a Texas Supreme Court judge.

Conservative politicians used to hate this kind of stuff. They called it the "nanny state" - conjuring images of a finger-wagging, bossy government forever telling us all what to do. Margaret ...

Nationals Leader David Littleproud has slammed the Government’s new vehicle efficiency standard, arguing it will hike car ...

If convicted, neglecting to twist the swill will cost $150 the first time, while serial offenders are fined $1,000 per failure-to-flush. Some may bristle under the rules of the “nanny state,” but many ...

A local cafe owner urged against a “nanny state” ban after 15,000 revellers left piles of rubbish at a beach party bash. Dave Martin, owner of the Courtyard cafe in nearby Coogee, said while ...