UK voters will go to the polls in the next 12 months. Conservatives have held office since 2010, but Simon Heffer doubts they’ll convince voters one more time. Writing in The New Criterion, Heffer asserts that a decade-plus of incompetence and mostly self-inflicted wounds have disgusted Brits of all stripes. And now come the engineers of Brexit – Nigel Farage and the Reform Party – to nail the lid on the Conservative coffin.

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.


