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.
Yay Brexit!
Brendan O’Neill in Spiked enthuses that Brexit is superior to just about anything else in the world. “There should be street parties” on the 10th anniversary of the popular vote to withdraw from the EU, he writes. “Let the bells peal for that momentous day when in our millions we said No to globalism.” The continuing surfeit of saboteurs and naysayers among Britain’s “idiot elites”, O’Neill snorts, are gripped by Brexit Derangement Syndrome.
