Glenn H. Reynolds in the New York Post suggests a new way of countering misinformation: instead of elites “protecting” the rest of society through censorship against ideas they deem dangerous, why not reduce the powers held by big businesses, big universities and big governments. That is because, writes Reynolds, their influence is all-too easily bought and they absorb – and circulate – the opposite of the truth.

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.


