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Churchill and Margaret Thatcher: Two Meetings of Two Minds
28
Mar
2023
2
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
It is curious that neither her biographer Charles Moore nor Churchill’s bodyguard Edmund Murray—who each knew of one Churchill-Thatcher meeting—knew of the other. The story of their two encounters shows us that Margaret Thatcher’s respect for Churchill was lifelong. And Churchill’s words in 1950 on the regulatory state could have been her own words, 30 years later. When it came to liberty, neither were for turning.
Margaret Thatcher’s Speech to Congress
25
Apr
2016
Churchill General Election and By-Election Results 1899-1959
09
Apr
2024
1
By DAVE TURRELL
Churchill was the winner in fourteen out of sixteen general elections in his career, an impressive performance; his record in by-elections, two out of five, was not nearly so solid, but those losses twice led to new seats that he held for long stretches. Defeated in Manchester in 1908, he moved to Dundee, which he held for sixteen years. Starting in 1924 he represented Epping, later Woodford, without serious challenge for forty years.
Great Contemporaries: Edmund Murray, Churchill’s Ubiquitous Bodyguard
19
Mar
2024
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
“The Churchill I knew was the epitome of all that was ever good and fine in our island race and he was always proud of his American heritage. Always his aim was to make Britain great, and to join all European countries in peace and freedom.... We all have a job to do and indeed the tools to do it are in your hands. Vivre a jamais dans l’esprit des gens, n’est-ce pas l’immortalite? There is the heritage he left us, our raison d’etre. May we all be worthy of his trust.”
Charles Stephenson Examines WSC as Home Secretary
07
Aug
2023
4
By WILLIAM J. SHEPHERD
Churchill was the youngest Home Secretary since Sir Robert Peel in 1822. His, accomplishments, the greatest of which was prison reform, did not rank among his most remarkable. Still, he proved himself administratively and politically competent. Stephenson portrays a strange mix of radical and traditionalist, with a “mercurial approach to politics”— “a political Lazarus” who proved that the Home Office was not a career-ending move.
Boris Resigns, Churchill Reminds: Constitutional Duty of Representatives
15
Jun
2023
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
“The first duty of a Member of Parliament is to do what he thinks in his faithful and disinterested judgment is right and necessary for the honour and safety of Great Britain. His second duty is to his constituents.... It is only in the third place that his duty to the party organization or programme takes rank.” —WSC, 1955
Great Contemporaries: Sir Robert Vidal Rhodes James, 1933-1999
18
Apr
2023
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Though his best-known work was Churchill: A Study in Failure,” Robert was an admirer who had hoped to write a sequel, "Churchill: A Study in Success." His eight volumes of Churchill’s speeches are simply indispensable. True, he was a curmudgeon, but also a grand raconteur, full of stories about Churchill and Parliament. Our colleague Paul Addison remembered “what fun he was to be with. Such a warm and generous character, sparkling with gossip and full of enthusiasms.”
Rumbles on the Right: The Raico Case Against Winston Churchill
27
Sep
2022
By MICHAEL MCMENAMIN
Libertarian disdain for Churchill stems from his 1940 premiership, without which, they believe, America would not have gone to war with Germany. Could they have lived with the consequences of a Nazi triumph? Churchill prevented that consequence. The world which resulted from his stubborn courage is better for it—and perfectly willing to accept the judgment of history.
Churchill for Today: His Six Precepts for Confronting Terrorists (Part 2)
16
Mar
2022
By CHRISTOPHER C. HARMON
"Democracy, I say, is not based on violence or terrorism, but on reason, on fair play, on freedom, on respecting other people’s rights as well as their ambitions…. I trust the people, the mass of the people, in almost any country, but I like to make sure that it is the people and not a gang of bandits." —WSC
Wheatcroft on Churchill: Is This Taking Character Assassination Too Far?
09
Sep
2021
Forster, Appeasement, and Fascism: What Churchill Really Believed
04
Apr
2021
1
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
The Forster Meeting: Churchill dealt easily with concepts and political ideas. If he had genuinely admired Fascism, he would have said so.
1100 Titles: An Annotated Bibliography of Works about Churchill
09
Jan
2021
2
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
All the works concerning Winston S. Churchill since 1905, with annotations on content, quality and links to reviews.