Pressure is mounting on the U.S. government to redefine the safe level of alcohol consumption down to zero, reports Christopher Snowdon in The Spectator – and the push is being driven by some of the same researchers who’ve been making life miserable for Canadian social drinkers. As in Canada, they seek to discredit the view that moderate drinking contributes to cardio-vascular health by challenging the famous “J-Curve” which, backed by decades of science, demonstrates that social drinkers are likely to live longer than teetotallers.

A Spite That Knows No Bounds
Gratingly awful global scold Greta Thunberg’s latest stunt is to turn on her own motherland. Sweden has been very good to her, but the former social-democratic paradise’s mugging by the realities of uncontrolled immigration do not sit well with the keffiyeh-clad rabblerouser. “For years, Sweden took more asylum seekers per capita than any other country in Europe,” writes Fredrik Karrholm in The Spectator. “Now asylum numbers have fallen to their lowest level since 1985.”


