In Tablet, Lee Smith provides a sombre view of the metastasizing global empire of Palestine. Though founded upon strong support in the West Bank and Gaza, the empire has a much broader scope than negotiating two non-contiguous plots of land. Smith explains how a performative cult of death that should be self-extinguishing is sustained by cynical and/or nihilist forces the world over.

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.


