As G.K. Chesterton alleged, “When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.” Damien Thompson, writing in Spectator U.S., wonders if the neo-Puritanism of Kamala Harris isn’t a modern iteration of the anti-Catholicism of the Godly Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

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.


