Strange how we’re more often driven by negative emotions than constructive sentiments. As Nietzsche recognized, resentment is among the most potent political motivators and politicians have become adept at stoking all its versions. In Law and Liberty, Theodore Dalrymple scrutinizes our current historiographical narrative that the past consists of nothing but injustices.

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.


