Civilizations have always understood that looters were criminals and looting a sign of civil decay. A chorus of commentators has sought to justify looting since the riots precipitated by the death of George Floyd, however. Frank Furedi, writing in Spiked, argues that adopting the philosophy of violence must eventually overwhelm democracy itself.

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.


