Pope Francis’ silence over the dismantling of a Catholic Church in China is unsettling. Long-time Vatican-watcher Damian Thompson wonders if the Pope could be an agent of Beijing. In Spectator US, Thompson notes that the Pontiff’s toxic resentment of the U.S. means he has never met a dictator he didn’t like.

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.


