Until a recent article by Nicholas Wade, the “scientific consensus” was that Covid-19 came about naturally. In Unherd, Matthew Crawford shows how the catastrophe has brought a new and peculiar form of intellectual intimidation into view, one in which fact-based threats to institutional authority are met with highly moralized denunciations.

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.


