When the Asian Flu hit in 1957, President Dwight Eisenhower didn’t declare a state of emergency, lock down the economy or close schools. But the era’s scientists did deliver a vaccine in four months flat. In the Wall Street Journal, Niall Ferguson suggests that a society with a stronger fabric of family life, community and church, and much simpler government, was better equipped to withstand a pandemic.

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.


