The chattering classes almost all believe the Enlightenment led to a permanently secular world, unencumbered by the dogmatic superstitions of religion. Tom Holland, writing in Unherd, argues that two recent developments – one in India, the other in Turkey – show that the ancient encounter between the secular and the sacred is far from settled.

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.


