In The Spectator, Andrew Roberts remembers the late, towering Henry Kissinger (who passed away at 100 on November 29), most famous for his role as Secretary of State to U.S. President Richard Nixon. Roberts succinctly describes how Kissinger shaped international relations in Israel, Iraq, Iran, Chile, Cambodia, East Timor, China and elsewhere in ways that often lasted to this day.

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.


