Institute of Economic Affairs

23/06/2026

🚬 "From behind a laptop set up a vast network of a syndicate under his control across Australia... He's developed a $7 billion crime industry."

Rohan Pike, founder of the Australian Border Force's To***co Strike Team, on how organised crime captured the market. 👇

https://youtu.be/hQNZxUbd2Io

23/06/2026

🚬 "Our graph that you would show for revenue has just fallen off a cliff... there will be no legal market within 18 months, to 2 years."

Rohan Pike, founder of the Australian Border Force's To***co Strike Team, on Australia's to***co tax collapse. 👇

https://youtu.be/hQNZxUbd2Io

22/06/2026

🚨 New podcast out now! 🚨

🚬 How did Australia's to***co tax revenue collapse from $16bn to $4bn?
💸 Can you tax a product so hard you lose the money?
🇬🇧 Is Britain heading the same way?

Dr. Christopher Snowdon speaks with Rohan Pike, founder of the Australian Border Force's To***co Strike Team. 👇

In this Institute of Economic Affairs podcast, IEA Head of Lifestyl...

22/06/2026

🎙️ "It's not about working a billion times as hard as someone else."

Dr. Kristian Niemietz on why market rewards have nothing to do with effort. 👇

19/06/2026

🛒 "Now you can just lie on your sofa with a cup of Glühwein and do it all online. That's so much better than what came before."

Dr. Kristian Niemietz on why Amazon's real gift is the consumer surplus, not the tax it pays. 👇

https://youtu.be/kPfpWKUA6N8

18/06/2026

🚨 New IEA interview out now! 🚨

📦 Is evidence-based policy a myth?
🍷 Did the sugar tax or minimum pricing ever work?
📱 Is the social media ban based on anything?

Callum Price speaks with Dr Christopher Snowdon on his new book, Inside the Sausage Factory. 👇

Read the paper here: https://iea.org.uk/publications/inside-the-sau...

18/06/2026

🔁 "In politics, everyone acting rationally can lead to irrational policies being introduced."

Dr. Christopher Snowdon for CapX on how self-interest, not evidence, drove a run of failed 'public health' policies. 👇

https://capx.co/the-nanny-statists-lack-evidence-for-their-campaigns

18/06/2026

"Smoking was already falling fast, helped by the rise of va**ng, before plain packaging was even mandatory. The policy took the credit for a trend it didn't start."

Dr Christopher Snowdon on plain packaging, for his new book Inside the Sausage Factory.

https://iea.org.uk/publications/inside-the-sausage-factory/

18/06/2026

Out Now: Inside the Sausage Factory by Dr Christopher Snowdon. 👇

https://iea.org.uk/publications/inside-the-sausage-factory/

18/06/2026

🩹 "When the policies were eventually introduced, there was little sign that they made the slightest improvement to any of the problems they were supposed to address."

Dr Christopher Snowdon on plain packaging, the sugar tax and minimum pricing. 👇

https://spectator.com/article/is-policy-making-evidence-based/