Parents across England rejoiced as schools reopened this week. While Sam Leith and his wife did their best to home-school their offspring, in Unherd, Leith acknowledges a real sadness born of knowing that it was anything but ideal and that the government-caused pandemic disruption will affect his children for many years.

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.


