The Black Lives Matter protests have produced a new breed of inquisitors. Like Torquemada, they demand blind allegiance to their orthodoxy and are brutally intolerant of dissenters from the One True Faith. Writing in The Intelligencer, Andrew Sullivan examines this new dispensation, which suppresses contrary arguments and shames and shuns those who make 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.


