Science is mutable. This anodyne truth has nowhere been better exemplified than in today’s Covid crisis. David Marcus, writing in The Federalist, reminds us that science is a tool, not an oracle. In Marcus’ view, the Covid disaster has been worsened by the purblind acceptance of expert opinion.

In Vino Veritas – Or, Whatever It Takes to Get the Truth Out of Such a Crew
Winston Churchill drank his way to saving the world from Nazism and, according to Alec Marsh in Spiked, the old bulldog would fit right in with certain current Parliamentarians enjoying a tipple to endure late-night sittings in Westminster. “Well, why not?” Marsh asks. “Politicians wouldn’t be human if they didn’t.” This news doesn’t, however, sit well with certain neo-puritan scolds from – you guessed it – the Green Party, which on the other hand does support providing free narcotics to welfare recipients.


