Much of medical science is an ongoing debate rather than a stock of unequivocal results. John Lee, writing in The Spectator, reminds us that medical experts can get things quite wrong. It is the job of politicians and civil servants, not scientists, to decide whether our response to the virus is proportionate and when to reopen the economy.

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.


