While many outside Britain understandably might not recall the brutal killing of MP David Amess last October, Tom Slater points out in Spiked that many Britons also have trouble with the details. Reminder: it was a terrorist act by a Jew-hating Islamic radical. Slater laments the wider effort to “depoliticize” such matters, i.e., suppress open discussion of the facts.

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.


