Illustrating the widening phenomenon of rural populations rebelling against “green” power projects, Robert Bryce writes about a recent U.S. court ruling demanding the dismantling of 84 420-foot-high wind turbines. Oklahoma’s Osage Nation had used issues of sovereignty to go after the project – but the tribe’s substantive concerns will be familiar to farmers and lovers of open spaces everywhere.

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.


