Helen Dale in Law & Liberty charts the meteoric rise of the Reform Party, which has elbowed aside the Conservatives as the UK’s voice of the right and is more popular than the new-ish Labour government. Reform’s seemingly sudden surge has actually been a long time in the making, its gadfly leader Nigel Farage having carried his torch and beaten his drum for over two decades.

Toppling a Communist Empire for $2.7 Million
Though widely thought of as focused on waterboarding terrorists or poisoning foreign potentates, it was by smuggling paper that the CIA achieved its most monumental triumph. R.M. Gerecht in a book review for The Washington Free Beacon charts how the late Cold War-era operation to flood Poland with Western books, magazines, printing supplies and audio recordings fatally weakened the country’s Communist dictatorship, setting the stage for the downfall of the entire Soviet empire. Total cost: US$2.7 million.


