Truths and Heresies

To understand Winston Churchill, should we not be concerned with the truth—the actual evidence of what happened in the past?

When Churchill took a harder line with Stalin at Yalta, he was consistent with his policy always to oppose the greater enemy.

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.

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

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

Famine and Relief: Far from seeking to starve India, Churchill sought every possible way to alleviate the suffering without undermining the war effort.

Ahistorical attacks like that of the BBC and National Trust strip away a heroic past. When a nation loses its heroes, something in it dies.

The first chapter of Nigel Hamilton's book, The Mantle of Command, states that the Lusitania was an “ill-fated American liner.” He leaves the impression that Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, had played a role in the sinking in order to get the United States into World War I.

Churchill's racial epithets were extremely rare. Most of the few that do exist come from only one source—which leads one to question how reliable it is.

If we allow our monuments and memorials and place-names to be torn down because of our present-day views, it speaks to a pathetic lack of confidence in ourselves.

Burton played a magnificent Churchill in “The Gathering Storm.” He also played to the camera, alternating praise with vitriol depending on his audience.

Churchill’s commitment to human rights ran deeper than we may imagine. It was still in evidence with regard to Apartheid South Africa as late as 1954.