The concentration of wealth and power in America has never been more pronounced. But for Dominic Green, the rich-poor chasm is more than economic. In the Spectator US, Green argues that a seemingly unbridgeable gap between a modern-day version of nobility and peasantry has destroyed the American democratic compact.

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.


