Since the AIDS epidemic of the early 1980s, epidemic modelling has generated dramatic numbers – often leading to widespread panic. But how reliable are they? Not very. Covid case and fatality projections have tumbled by orders of magnitude. This is nothing new, however. After so many failures, Michael Fumento argues in Issues and Insights, it’s time to ditch the models.

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.


