Clementine’s travelling companion was an art dealer called Terence Philip. ibid.
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I have noticed a recent deterioration in your manner. You’re not as kind as you used to be. ibid. Clementine
Which self shall I be today? ibid. Winston
His record is a litany of catastrophe. ibid. King
Here’s to not buggering it up! ibid. Winston
He’s delusional. Completely delusional. ibid. French premier
With Hitler holding the whip hand, do you really think he would honour our liberty and independence? ibid. Winston
King: How do you manage drinking during the day?
Winston: Practice. ibid.
Will you stop interrupting me when I am interrupting you? ibid. Winston
Prime Minister Winston Churchill had surprised cabinet colleagues by suggesting the Conservatives fight the next election on the slogan, Keep England White. David Olusoga, The Unwanted: The Secret Windrush Files, BBC 2019
During the Second World War a vast complex of secret bunkers was constructed under the streets of London. This world now lost to time was once an important refuge from the nightly onslaught of German air raids. This subterranean labyrinth kept the British government led by Winston Churchill safe through the darkest days of the War. Lost Worlds: Churchill’s Secret Bunkers, History 2006
Although it never fully served its purpose, Paddock was important: it helped engineers understand how to build bomb shelters, and it served as a prototype for many of Churchill’s bunkers. ibid.
Under this building in central London ... with over 200 rooms it was the hub of Winston Churchill’s wartime world ... a refuge for Churchill and his cabinet even in the most desperate of times. ibid.
Winston Churchill, a giant of history. Famous for his inspiring leadership. But behind the legend lies a complicated character. He was an aristocrat and a man of the people. A trailblazer who also had questionable beliefs. Churchill I, Channel 5 2021
An unloved and difficult child to a famous soldier with the world at his feet. And a family tragedy behind Churchill’s fierce determination to success. ibid.
After passing out at Sandhurst, he becomes an officer in the British army … In the 1890s the Empire is so popular that Churchill soon becomes a widely-read and well-paid writer. ibid.
The rollercoaster ride of Churchill’s early career: as a young MP his rise through the ranks is meteoric. But when he is blamed for one of the worst disasters in British history it all comes crashing down. But Churchill fights back and hope returns. Churchill II: The Long Grass
1915: He is in charge of the largest naval force in the world … Churchill tries to convince his colleagues that Britain should take on Turkey. It is, he claims, the surest and shortest route to victory … Five weeks after the failed naval attacks an invasion force of 30,000 men heads for the Turkish coast … ‘blood and bandages all over the beach … whole regiments wiped out.’ ibid.
The remarkable story of how a political has-been makes one of the greatest comebacks of all time. And goes on to become the heroic war leader many still celebrate today. Churchill III: A Gathering Storm
When the country is thrown into a political crisis Churchill can’t help but get involved. ibid.
From the powerful alliances he makes with Roosevelt and Stalin to the huge personal risks he takes for Victory in the Second World War. Churchill IV: Path to Victory
December 1941: He’s just arrived in America … He’s here to change the course of the Second World War. When it’s announced Churchill’s in town, it’s like a movie star’s arrived. An adoring American public sends him thousands of presents. ibid.
Churchill gets the best Christmas present of all: the Americans commit to backing him completely against Nazi Germany. ibid.
1945 and the last summer of the Second World War. Prime minister Winston Churchill has led Britain to the rink of victory but he’s far from done. Churchill calls a general election. He expects voters will give him another five years at Number 10. Churchill is in for a shock. Churchill V: Fallen Hero
The crowd are chanting, ‘We want Labour.’ Then the booing starts. Walthamstow is an embarrassment and a sign that Churchill may be in deep trouble. ibid.
Churchill’s final years: Churchill’s reckless behaviour in old age threatens to jeopardise his place in history, before one of the most elaborate funerals Britain has ever seen seals his legacy for generations to come. Churchill VI: Curtain Call
The two-time prime minister and celebrated war hero is seeing out his days in style in Monte Carlo. ibid.
Sudan 1898 colonials wars. In Omdurman in 1989 the whole European arsenal was tested against a numerically superior and very determined enemy. One of the most cheerful depicters of war was Winston Churchill, later Nobel winner for Prize for literature. Was the war correspondent of the Morning Post. ‘Nothing like the battle of Obdurman will ever be seen again’, wrote Churchill in a book published after the experience. Exterminate All the Brutes s1e3: Killing at a Distance or … How I Thoroughly Enjoyed the Outing ***** HBO 2021
An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan by Winston Spencer Churchill: ‘They were a condensed mass: 2,800 yards from the 32nd field battery and the gunboats. The ranges were known. It was a matter of machinery. The mind was fascinated by the impending horror. I could see it coming. In a few seconds swift destruction would rush on these brave men … It was based on a fatal underestimation of the effectiveness of modern weapons. Within the space of five hours, the strongest best armed and savage army yet arrayed against a modern European power had been destroyed and dispersed with hardly any difficulty, comparatively small risk and insignificant loss to the victors. Thus ended the Battle of Omdurman, the most striking triumph ever gained by the arms of science against barbarians … only a sporting element in a splendid game. ibid.
Churchill would persuade them to target not France but supposedly easier territory in north Africa and later Italy, what he called ‘the soft underbelly of Hitler’s Europe’. Professor David Reynolds, World War II: 1942 and Hitler’s Soft Underbelly, BBC 2012
Britain’s whole war effort had become hostage to a desert victory. ibid.
Churchill’s leadership was now being questioned. ibid.
Relations between Britain and America provided Churchill’s only bright spot. ibid.
Churchill was besotted by Tobruk. Jonathan Dimbleby, Churchill’s Desert War: The Road to Alamein, BBC 2012
Bloody Sunday: 1911 Liverpool general transport strike. As protest of up to 85,000 gather, Home Secretary Winston Churchill sends troops and armoured cars into Liverpool to break the strike, and positions the gunboat HMS Antrim on the Mersey. Soldiers also opened fire on a crowd in Vauxhall Road, killing 2, injuring 15. Ragged Trousered Philanderer tweet 14 April 2023
Then he asked someone sitting nex to him at dinner, Do you think the famine in Bengal is bad? He said, Yes it is. And Churchill said, If the famine was that bad, how come Gandhi was still alive? Tariq Ali, interview PoliticsJoe, author Churchill: His Times, His Crimes’, Youtube 52.13, 2003
Churchill used the words ‘enemy within’ [miners]. Thatcher took them up from him. ibid.
Most of them [biographies on Churchill] are basically puff-jobs. ibid.
Churchill was born on 30th November 1874 to Conservative politician Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill and American socialite Jennie Jerome. A child of aristocracy he was born at Blenheim Palace. Times in Focus: Eugenics, Youtube 47.39, 2023
In May 1904 he crossed the floor to sit with the Liberals. ibid.
He was in favour of the old tolerant and generous practice of free entry and asylum to which this country had long adhered. ibid.
Churchill was impressed by the Theory of Eugenics and was interested in the idea of sterilizing the unfit. The Eugenics movement in educated circles was somewhat en vogue between the turn of the century and the First World War. ibid.
The idea of positive and negative Eugenics was given as a solution; incentives should be given to the middle classes to have more children, and measures taken to prevent the unfit from procreating. ibid.
In 1910 he was in favour of the confinement, segregation and sterilization of a class of persons contemporarily described as the feeble-minded. ibid.
‘The improvement of the British breed is my aim in life’. ibid. Churchill, letter to cousin
In February 2011 Churchill spoke in the House of Commons about the need to introduce compulsory labour camps for mental defectives. ibid.
Chesterton ridiculed what he called the Feeble-Minded Bill. ibid.
‘Legislation for the sake of scientific creed which in ten years may be discredited.’ iibid. Lord Josiah Wedgwood’s Commons speech
The views of the Eugenists were much influenced by the American psychologist Henry H Goddard. ibid.
The Mental Deficiency Bill passed its third reading in the House of Commons in 1913 with only 3 votes being cast against it. ibid.
During the 43 years of the Eugenics board, 2832 sterilization procedures were performed. ibid.