The lockdown allows us the opportunity to develop passions for hitherto unexplored avenues of pleasure. Writing in Unherd, Giles Fraser recounts his progress from an occasional imbiber of wine to a connoisseur of the grape. Fraser has unearthed an important truth: developing a truly sophisticated palate requires a great deal of practice.

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.


