The Brussels Report Podcast Episode 32 – with Christopher Snowdon

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🗓️ 28 July 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Christopher Snowdon is the head of Lifestyle Economics at the Institute of Economic Affairs. His research focuses on lifestyle freedoms, prohibition and policy-based evidence. He is a regular contributor to the Spectator, Telegraph and Spiked and often appears on TV and radio discussing social and economic issues.

Snowdon’s work encompasses a diverse range of topics including ‘sin taxes’, state funding of charities, happiness economics, ‘public health’ regulation, gambling and the black market. Recent publications include ‘Drinking, Fast and Slow’, ‘The Proof of the Pudding: Denmark’s Fat Tax Fiasco’, ‘A Safer Bet’, and ‘You Had One Job’. He is also the author of ‘Killjoys’ (2017), ‘Selfishness, Greed and Capitalism’ (2015), ‘The Art of Suppression’ (2011), ‘The Spirit Level Delusion’ (2010), ‘Velvet Glove, Iron Fist’ (2009).

In this this episode of the Brussels Report podcast, BrusselsReport.eu editor Pieter Cleppe discusses the Nanny State Index (NSI), which is authored by Snowdon, along with partners across Europe.

This is a league table of the worst places in Europe to eat, drink, smoke and vape. The initiative was launched in March 2016 and has been a media hit right across Europe.

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0:00.0	The Brussels Report Podcast.
0:10.0	Welcome to a new episode of the Brussels Report podcast.
0:17.0	My name is Peter Klepper.
0:19.0	I'm the editor-in-chief of BrusselsReport.com.
0:23.6	And I am delighted to have as my guest Chris Snowden. Chris is the head of lifestyle economics
0:31.1	at the British Institute for Economic Affairs. This is a very important think tank in the United
0:37.4	Kingdom. I would say the
0:38.6	flag bearer of classical liberalism of advocacy in favor of free market policy solutions.
0:47.6	They have played a massive role in preparing the Tatcher revolution. Unfortunately,
0:53.4	the trust revolution has not materialized. But nevertheless, the Icher revolution. Unfortunately, the trust revolution has not materialized.
0:56.4	But nevertheless, the IA is also interested in the policies of other countries outside of the UK.
1:03.5	And every year they come up now already for the seventh years with the NANE state index,
1:09.7	which basically measures to what extent European countries engage in paternalism,
1:18.3	in the end also distorting consumer choice while regulating private choices.
1:25.9	So welcome, Chris.
1:29.8	That's nice to be here. Very accurate introduction.
1:36.9	So maybe, yeah, you could introduce a little bit and explain what the findings are of the index this year.
1:47.0	Sure. So we have 30 countries in the index. We actually have Turkey in the index for the first time. Okay. We've expanded it a little bit in the last few years. We also have Norway in there, which wasn't in there when we first started.
1:52.0	And actually, Turkey is at the top of the table, and Norway is second. So you've got two very
1:57.8	different countries there, but with similarly paternalistic policies.
2:03.2	And then towards the bottom of the table, in other words, the more liberal countries,
2:07.2	you have places like Italy, Czech Republic, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain.
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