Earlier this week former Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd. Before the verdict was in, two prominent American politicians – Maxine Waters and President Joe Biden – violated the longstanding principle that politicians remain silent about matters before the courts. In the New York Post, Andrew McCarthy tells why these ill-considered outbursts provide grounds for appeal.

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.


