Templer, Kennedy, and the Origin of Churchill’s “Wrung like a Chicken”

Joseph Kennedy or the French generals? The origins of a famous oratorical flourish, on how Britain turned out to be one tough chicken.

If any one event ended imperial Britain, it was Suez, which also saw last significant intervention by Winston Churchill in world affairs.

How Jack Johnson proved as good a lawyer as he was a boxer; and how Winston Churchill proved a better politician than Lord Stanhope. The reality behind another unfounded Churchill calumny.

Young Winston 12 decades ago—and a speculation about just how rough his escape became at South Africa’s Witbank colliery.

On Monarchy: “It is natural for Parliaments to talk and for the Crown to shine…. We are never likely to run short of Ministers who can talk.”

The Forster Meeting: Churchill dealt easily with concepts and political ideas. If he had genuinely admired Fascism, he would have said so.

Churchill took criticisms of his Fulton speech calmly, and never backed off. He knew he’d been right & within three years he was vindicated.

Eden by Charlwood: “The morning had been golden; the noontime was bronze; and the evening lead. But all were solid, and each was polished until it shone after its fashion.”

The story of the Churchill, Harriman and Roosevelt daughters at the Yalta Conference was unnoticed until this account by Catherine Katz.

Alan Allport offers a very fine synthesis of new aspects without repetition, but Churchill’s long shadow still hovers over WW2.

“Springing ahead” to Daylight Time, we recall Churchill’s support of Willett, whose “vision and driving power” led to this “great reform.”

A forensic examination and point-by-point of a Cambridge University panel on Churchill, race, the British Empire and the Second World War.