Rhetoric and slogans have a habit of straying from reality, which is usually more complex. Writing in Quillette, John McWhorter examines American crime statistics. He concludes that the claim the police regularly kill black people under circumstances in which white people would be merely disciplined is a misperception.

Yay Brexit!
Brendan O’Neill in Spiked enthuses that Brexit is superior to just about anything else in the world. “There should be street parties” on the 10th anniversary of the popular vote to withdraw from the EU, he writes. “Let the bells peal for that momentous day when in our millions we said No to globalism.” The continuing surfeit of saboteurs and naysayers among Britain’s “idiot elites”, O’Neill snorts, are gripped by Brexit Derangement Syndrome.


