Science is increasingly invoked to legitimize the transfer of sovereignty from democratic to technocratic bodies. In Unherd, Matthew Crawford maintains that the pandemic has made a fearful public consent to an extraordinary extension of expert jurisdiction over every domain of life, leading to the ominous development of “government by emergency.”

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.


