There’s almost universal agreement that virtually shutting down the economy, however painful, is necessary to stop the spread of the Wuhan virus. One of the few dissenting voices has been Peter Hitchens. In conversation with Spiked’s Brendan O’Neill, the British author questions whether the effects on society are in proportion to the problem.

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.


