When the Covid-19 virus first appeared and our knowledge of its lethality was limited, “sheltering in place” and closing our schools appeared to be rational safeguards. But for Roger Kimball, writing in American Greatness, the evidence is now clear. Far from being an existential emergency, the virus is just a vicissitude of life.

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.


