Nancy Pelosi wants an inquiry into the January 6 riots in Washington, D.C. Roger Kimball concurs. In Spectator US, Kimball argues that such an exercise must address the discrepancies between media coverage of the Capitol Hill riot and their virtual silence during last summer’s “mostly peaceful” burning and looting of American cities.

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.


