PETER HITCHENS: Nothing conservative about these drug legalisers

Supporters of free speech must rally to the defence of the strange conference in Brussels which was briefly shut down last week. But if this was conservatism, no wonder the cause is lost. No wonder there is nothing conservative about these drug legalisers. The cause of conservatism is lost, says Peter Hitchners.

Those calling for the legalisation of cannabis while defending Rishi Sunak’s ban on smoking cigarettes have shown their true colours. Liberals’ hypocrisy on banning tobacco is pure class snobbery, it is true class snubbery, says Simon Tisdall.

My brother was one of the most enthusiastic smokers in the Western world. He would have celebrated his 75th birthday last weekend if he had lived, he said. He died of throat cancer in 2011, aged 62, after suffering from throat cancer. 'Libertarians' who oppose the smoking ban are fools are fools.