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!”
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.