In Spiked, Fraser Myers covers the “trial” of former UK prime minister Boris Johnson. The venue is supposed to be an unbiased evaluation of the country’s handling of Covid-19, to better prepare for the next pandemic. Myers shows how the process is instead attempting to solidify a pro-lockdown narrative by twisting statistics and ignoring key facts such as non-lockdown Sweden’s low rate of excess deaths.

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.


