The dream of California as a land of sunshine and endless opportunity has collapsed into neo-feudalism, albeit one with better marketing. Disparities between rich and poor have never been greater, even as the ruling elite destroys the ordinary citizen’s quality of life. In Unherd, Joel Kotkin documents the state’s decline.

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.


