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.
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.
