The World Health Organization’s mandate is to shield us all from the spread of disease. Yet instead of alerting the world to the Covid-19 pandemic, it has been complicit in its spread. Kapil Komireddi, writing in The Critic, casts a gimlet eye at Tedros Ghebreyesus, the WHO’s Director-General, and his strange relationship with China.

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.


