Germany’s farmers are rising in protest akin to the populist truckers’ movement, writes Tom Slater in Spiked. Provoked by government plans to increase farm-related taxes and mire farming in even more green-driven red tape, 30,000 people with 5,000 tractors have camped out peacefully in Berlin. Amidst deeper concerns that government policy is pushing farming itself towards extinction, people are saying, “We’ve had enough!”

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.


