In Politico, Michael Schaffer analyzes media coverage of the U.S. Democratic Party’s Presidential primary and finds a cloistered news ecosystem. Candidate Dean Phillips, for example, complains he’s been sidelined by mainstream media who’ve been pressured by President Joe Biden’s campaign. Schaffer compares this with the media free-for-all concerning Republican rivals to Donald Trump.

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.


