George Weigel in First Things reflects somewhat floridly on the war in Ukraine, which two days ago marked its grim two-year anniversary. The suffering they’ve endured, Weigel says, has united Ukrainians in determination to resist Russian forces. Currently dubious Americans, he suggests, should take a lesson from Second World War-era Senator Arthur Vandenberg, who dropped his penny-pinching when it really counted.

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.


