Among the scourges of the pandemic is Neo-Puritanism. Lockdowns, social distancing and face masks have given the sanctimonious reason to bully those who object, while turning a blind eye to the suicides, distress, poverty and social dissolution their side has brought about. Writing in The Critic, Patrick Fagan warns we’re sleepwalking into a totalitarian nightmare.

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.


