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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.
Churchill and the Genocide Myth: Last Word on the Bengal Famine
27
Jan
2021
By ZAREER MASANI
Famine and Relief: Far from seeking to starve India, Churchill sought every possible way to alleviate the suffering without undermining the war effort.
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Amartya Sen,
Archibald Wavell,
Bengal famine,
India,
Indian Congress,
Leopold Amery,
Madhusree Mukerjee,
Mahasabha,
Mohandas Gandhi,
Muslim League,
Pakistan,
Quit India Movement,
Ramaswamy Mudaliar,
Stafford Cripps,
Subhas Chandra Bose,
Tirthankar Roy,
Victor Hope Lord Linlithgow,
Winston S. Churchill,
Zareer Masani,
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.
The British Raj According to Tharoor: Some of the Truth, Part of the Time
07
Aug
2020
1
By TIRTHANKAR ROY
On the Raj, Tharoor offers a half-truth, which, “like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.”
Stop this Trashing of our Monuments — and of our Past
15
Jun
2020
By ANDREW ROBERTS
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.
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Andrew Roberts,
Battle of Trafalgar,
Captain Cook,
Clive of India,
Cultural Revolution,
Earl Haig,
Francis Drake,
Genghis Khan,
Henry Dundas,
Horatio Nelson,
King George III,
L.P. Hartley,
Mohandas Gandhi,
Robert Baden Powell,
Robert Peel,
Shaka,
Tamerlane,
William Gladstone,
Winston S. Churchill,
“The Art of the Possible”: Churchill, South Africa, and Apartheid (1)
04
Jun
2020
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Rather than advancing segregation in South Africa, Churchill strove hard for justice, arrayed against the broad prejudices of his time. Part 1: 1902-09
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Apartheid,
Arthur Balfour,
Boer War,
Botswana,
Cape Colony,
Cape Coloureds,
Cecil Rhodes,
East Africa Protectorate,
Eswatini,
Henry Campbell Bannerman,
Ian Hamilton,
Jan Smuts,
Joseph Chamberlain,
Lesotho,
Lord Elgin,
Lord Milner,
Lord Selborne,
Louis Botha,
Martin Gilbert,
Mohandas Gandhi,
Natal,
Orange Free State,
Randolph S. Churchill,
Responsible Government,
South Africa,
Transvaal,
Winston S. Churchill,
Zululand,
Churchill and Influenza: Lessons of Leadership and Courage
13
Apr
2020
By ANDREW ROBERTS
Before Covid-19 leaves our native shores, is there anything that might be learned from Churchillian leadership about our best response to it?
The End is Nigh: British Politics, Power, and the Road to the Second World War, by Robert Crowcroft
28
Aug
2019
By PAUL ADDISON
Both Churchill and Chamberlain understood that Nazi Germany was a time bomb. But whereas Chamberlain imagined that it could be defused by diplomacy, Churchill believed that it could only be defused by force, or the threat of force. When the diplomacy of appeasement failed Chamberlain was compelled to accept—albeit with the profound reluctance of a man who loathed war—that no other response was possible. In the final analysis the British Empire, which was already in decline, had to be sacrificed so that Britain itself could live.
Person of the 20th Century: Charles Krauthammer’s Appraisal
09
Jun
2019
By DR. CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER
“Only Churchill carries that absolutely required criterion: indispensability,” wrote Dr. Krauthammer. “Without Churchill the world today would be unrecognizable.”
Was Churchill a White Supremacist?
07
May
2019
3
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
So deeply implanted is the belief that Churchill was a white supremacist that certain students and faculties accept it without demur.
Fake History Abounds in the film, “Viceroy’s House”
29
Apr
2017
3
By ANDREW ROBERTS
A recent film, Viceroy's House, narrates the story of the massacre in India following its independence and partition. While absolving the man most responsible—Louis Mountbatten—it charged Winston Churchill and his military secretary Hastings Ismay with the deaths of millions.