Governments must show greater concern for how their actions affect public trust, says Vinay Prasad in City Journal. Case in point, the FDA’s near-approval and then subsequent walk-back of the Pfizer vaccine for those aged six months to four years old. The result, observes Prasad, is to erode the FDA’s credibility “at precisely the time we need faith in vaccine regulators.”
Yay Brexit!
Brendan O’Neill in Spiked enthuses that Brexit is superior to just about anything else in the world. “There should be street parties” on the 10th anniversary of the popular vote to withdraw from the EU, he writes. “Let the bells peal for that momentous day when in our millions we said No to globalism.” The continuing surfeit of saboteurs and naysayers among Britain’s “idiot elites”, O’Neill snorts, are gripped by Brexit Derangement Syndrome.
