Tim Black in Spiked shakes his head at leftish snark over media coverage of the Titan submersible calamity. Commentators are upset that five super-rich and (supposedly) white people have pushed aside tales of migrants’ woes in the Mediterranean. Black argues that this tendentious non sequitur is itself exploitative.
The War on Alcohol Moves South
Pressure is mounting on the U.S. government to redefine the safe level of alcohol consumption down to zero, reports Christopher Snowdon in The Spectator – and the push is being driven by some of the same researchers who’ve been making life miserable for Canadian social drinkers. As in Canada, they seek to discredit the view that moderate drinking contributes to cardio-vascular health by challenging the famous “J-Curve” which, backed by decades of science, demonstrates that social drinkers are likely to live longer than teetotallers.