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“The Cambridge Companion to Winston Churchill”: a Review
06
Jul
2023
By ANDREW ROBERTS
Academics revel in pointing out their subjects’ feet of clay, but all too often pay too little attention to the marble in the rest of the statue. This is a relatively new phenomenon. The words that free peoples employ in their defence of the liberty to express contested ideas will largely be those of Sir Winston Churchill: the subject—but sadly not the hero—of this book.
What the Marxist Ali gets wrong about Winston Churchill
16
May
2022
1
Churchill and the Nation-State: Ukraine and Hungary Today
06
Apr
2022
By ANDREW ROBERTS
Churchill was a powerful advocate of the nation-state. The EU is not one, but Ukraine has shown that it is. Day after day, in their streets and suburbs and forests, ordinary Ukrainians are showing that they believe it is a real country. They would not be fighting and dying if they did not believe this.
Wheatcroft on Churchill: Is This Taking Character Assassination Too Far?
09
Sep
2021
Questions and Answers: How Churchill Would See Our World
03
Aug
2021
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Churchillians in Portland, Oregon have Sir Winston on their minds; their questions are pertinent to our understanding of him, and ourselves.
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Henry Steele Commager,
Leo Strauss,
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Mary SOames,
My Early Life,
Neville Chamberlain,
North Korea,
Official Biography,
Palestine,
social media,
Stanley Baldwin,
The Second World War,
Umberto Eco,
Winston S. Churchill,
Zionism,
Churchill, Eden, America and the Suez Crisis of 1956
23
May
2021
By ANDREW ROBERTS
If any one event ended imperial Britain, it was Suez, which also saw last significant intervention by Winston Churchill in world affairs.
Cambridge: “The Racial Consequences of Mr. Churchill,” A Review
14
Mar
2021
3
By ANDREW ROBERTS and ZEWDITU GEBREYOHANES
A forensic examination and point-by-point of a Cambridge University panel on Churchill, race, the British Empire and the Second World War.
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Archibald Wavell,
Arthur Herman,
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Bengal famine,
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Christopher Columbus,
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Churchill College Cambridge,
Clement Attlee,
Ernest Bevin,
Eugenics,
Holocaust,
Jallianwala Bagh,
John Maynard Keynes,
Lend Lease,
Leo Crowley,
Lord Linlithgow,
Lord Mountbatten,
Max Beaverbrook,
Operation Barbarossa,
Oxford Union,
Reverse Lend-Lease,
Richard M. Langworth,
Sati,
Thuggee,
Tirthankar Roy,
Zareer Masani,
Zewditu Gebreyohanes,
Why Calgary Needs a Statue of Sir Winston Churchill
03
Feb
2021
By MARK MILKE
The Calgary Churchill statue will celebrate Sir Winston’s prescience in peace, resolution in war, and lifetime quest for liberty and human rights.
The Bumptious Politician’s Guide to Churchill Myths and their Making
24
Dec
2020
By MICHAEL MCMENAMIN
“The Churchill Myths” is not about Churchill. It is about how politicians the authors don’t like wrap themselves in Churchill mythology.
Cancel-Culture: We Expected Better from the National Trust and the BBC
17
Dec
2020
2
By ANDREW ROBERTS
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.
“Winston Churchill: A Life in the News,” by Richard Toye
07
Dec
2020
2
By MICHAEL MCMENAMIN
Churchill and the media is a larger story than author Toye tells, and the omissions are as disappointing as the assertions are disconcerting.
Great Contemporaries: Richard Haldane, “Prodigy, Paragon and Philosopher-Statesman”
05
Aug
2020
By ANDREW ROBERTS
With his many achievements, Haldane stood as warning that the apex of politics, there was no such thing as friendship. Except perhaps with Churchill.
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