winston churchill

It is often said by those who favour pugnacious foreign policies that their opponents are Neville Chamberlains and almost no explanation of this is considered necessary as if it were so obvious that Chamberlain was so awful. In recent years, the term seems to have been used to refer to people...

Freely admitted upfront, I have only a cursory knowledge of UK politics. So, I really don't know the nuances of Paul Weston, and whether Brits consider him a qualified and serious candidate with a meaningful shot at the election, or nothing more than a rabble-rousing wedge candidate. Here's the...

Apparently Glenn Beck thinks Obama sent back a bust of Churchill because of his grandfather that he never met. http://www.newsweek.com/2009/02/20/busted-the-churchill-flap.html Apparently the bust was a loaner as well, loaned to GWB to be returned.

Winston Churchill 'Ordered Cover-Up' Of UFO Info To Avoid Mass Panic, Says National Archives | UK News | Sky News In other words, it's another A-Friend-Of-A-Friend report.

A little historical perspective

Is Winston Churchill a war criminal because of the Bombing of Dresden during WW2? Does that make him a war criminal?

Conspiracy theories aren't just for Youtube you know. Now you can see a play about one - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/coventry_warwickshire/7282424.stm Although the Times just accepts it as fact and focuses on the rights and wrongs of the sacrifice implied by the theory. I'm still...

In the Jewish world, there is a bit of a fuss made over a letter written by Churchill in 1937 which says "Jews are partially responsible" (the reporters' words, not Churchill's) to the antagonism against them. The link is here. I dunno: seems to me like a tempest in a teapot. First of all...

I saw this in Salon today, if accurate, it may tell us all somehting about the Bush crack-up: At the latest meeting of Bush's book club, where the guest was "Andrew Roberts, an English conservative historian and columnist and the author of 'The Churchillians' and, most recently, 'A History of...

I just finished Roy Jenkins's biography of Churchill and enjoyed it immensely. I loved the account of his years in the Liberal Party and his dealings with Lloyd-George and Jackie Fischer. Does anyone have any comments on this book? How was it received in the UK, since it was written by a...

I plan on asked for this as an Xmas gift, and would like the best written/most accurate/least biased version in print. Thank you in advance for any help/suggestions. - Kodiak

Winston Spencer Churchill: "How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods...

Not the Churchill of the war years, but the Churchill of the 1930's Would that this were indeed the case, but I fear it's not true. http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Toronto/Peter_Worthington/2004/09/28/646211.html