Today’s gentility eschews allegiance to an actual place and instead proclaims solidarity with moralistic programs, such as opposing racism. Matthew Crawford, writing in UnHerd, examines the gentlefolk’s moral ecology. A politics of repudiation, writes Crawford, distinguishes the select few from ordinary citizens – explaining and excusing their contempt for them.

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.


