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Alistair Cooke, Churchill at the Time (Part 2): Politics and Principle
08
Sep
2022
By ALISTAIR COOKE KBE
Churchill’s virtues included the acceptance of defeats as necessary to wielding power; a tough but generous relation with rivals in politics, magnanimity toward a defeated enemy; a willingness to experiment; and above all, in the supreme crisis, an absolute refusal to compromise or surrender. From all this, there is powerful evidence to support Isaiah Berlin’s judgment of him as “the largest human being of our time.”
Alistair Cooke, Churchill at the Time (Part 1): The Liberal Lion
25
Aug
2022
By ALISTAIR COOKE KBE
“My father was a Manchester Liberal. bearing with cheerful stoicism the fact that his wife always voted Conservative….. His youth was spent during what he always said were Winston’s great years, 1906 to 1910, during the memorable Liberal Parliament, when the two great radicals, Lloyd George and Churchill, embarked on the reform of British society.”