The presumption that one holds a particular ideology absent explicit declarations to the contrary has guided character cancellations and forced professions of wokeness at universities. Now, Heather Mac Donald writes in City Journal, musicians, athletes, students or anyone with Russian affiliation are forming a new frontier for the “associated with until proven otherwise” campaign.

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.


