Boris Johnson may have pulled the plug on mandatory muzzles, but his inner circle’s previous Louis XVI-esque partying has the UK’s Tory Party reeling. Could one MP’s defection to Labour be the beginning of the end, or a trough to climb out of? In the Spectator UK, Steven Fielding analyzes the mop-headed Downing Street denizen’s predicament.

The Frigid Isle
Íris Erlingsdóttir shines a light on the world’s first wholly feminized state. Women, she writes in The European Conservative, run everything in Iceland: “the presidency, the prime minister’s office…[the] national state church…schools, municipalities, police…newsrooms and [the] ever-expanding public bureaucracy.” As for the men, Erlingsdóttir observes, they describe themselves ruefully as (bad-taste alert) “pussy-whipped.”


