The United States, a nation once thought automatically prosperous, is suddenly thrown back on its essentials. Although the current unrest appears to be about race, Joel Kotkin argues in The American Mind they are more rooted in class. America, he says, has produced young, growing and multi-racial class of neo-serfs with few economic prospects and little hope.

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.


