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Fake News from the Huffington Post
02
May
2017
Fake History in “Churchill,” starring Brian Cox
01
May
2017
26
By ANDREW ROBERTS
Well-acted with good photography and music, "Churchill" attempts an insight into psychology at a crucial stage of the Second World War. The only problem with the movie is that it gets absolutely everything wrong. Never in the course of movie-making have so many specious errors been made in so long a film by so few writers.
Fake History Abounds in the film, “Viceroy’s House”
29
Apr
2017
5
Churchill, Refugees, and Aliens
27
Apr
2017
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
During the war, Britain had a fairly strict internment policy for incoming foreigners. Churchill certainly acknowledged the wisdom of carefully vetting incomers for enemy agents. However, Churchill quickly began to deplore the broad policy of interning refugees and foreigners, and firmly believed that no one should be imprisoned without just cause.
No Panic over UFO Sightings
23
Apr
2017
Indian People Receive Post-truth History about Winston Churchill
23
Apr
2017
2
By ANDREW ROBERTS
India is about to attain economic superpower status and it’s unbecoming for the country still to try to cling to victimhood status. The Times of India has had to run headlines such as: "Don’t Blame West for Molestations, Rapes Here." (The paper also has adverts for "upper-caste brides" in its lonely hearts column.) With regard to Churchill, it’s the sign of a self-confident people that they can ascribe greatness to those who disliked them. We Britons do that for the anglophobic Thomas Jefferson, Napoleon Bonaparte and Charles de Gaulle.
“Are There Men on the Moon?”: Churchill on Alien Life, 1942
17
Feb
2017
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By WINSTON S. CHURCHILL
The worldwide media was exercised over the surfacing of what was alleged to be an unpublished Churchill article, held by the National Churchill Museum in Fulton, Missouri, in which our author contemplates the possibility of extraterrestrial life. The Museum, which received the typescript from the wife of Churchill’s literary agent Emery Reves, believed the manuscript to be a new discovery. As much as we’d be pleased to find new Churchill material, however, the “Aliens” article is not new. Whole passages mark it as a variant of Churchill’s essay, “Are There Men on the Moon?” published by London’s Sunday Dispatch on 8 March 1942. In 1975 it reappeared in volume form in The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill.
Did Churchill Prolong the Battle of the Atlantic?
07
Dec
2016
3
By CHRISTOPHER M. BELL
Critics have argued that the Allied victory in the Atlantic was delayed by Churchill’s stubborn refusal to provide Coastal Command with aircraft capable of operating in the region known as the “Air Gap”—the waters south of Greenland in which convoys could not count on air support from either land-based or carrier-borne aircraft. The implication is that millions of tons of merchant shipping and thousands of lives might have been saved if Churchill had not prioritized the bomber offensive over the U-boat war. In this article, history professor Christopher M. Bell addresses whether or not Churchill was really responsible for this delay.
Irish Matters: “Churchill’s Final View”
04
May
2016
9
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Irish self-determination is something Churchill is alleged to have opposed. The truth is quite different. Readers will do well to understand the nuances.
On Churchill’s “Sybaritic” Lifestyle
27
Apr
2016
Tonypandy and Llanelli: Myth and Reality
11
Apr
2016
“Randolph, Hope and Glory”: Co-author of the Official Biography
30
Mar
2016
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