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Winston S. Churchill 1940-2010

March 10, 2010

You can read about Winston Churchill’s career elsewhere. I’d like rather to indulge in the remembrance of a friend. We met through the post forty-two years ago, when he became the third honorary member of the Churchill Study Unit, after his grandmother and his father. The latter had only just sent a letter of encouragement [...]

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135 Years: Raise a Glass

November 30, 2009

“A few curmudgeons have flamboyantly abstained from joining in this birthday greeting; but they are so few that their action merely emphasises the fact that personal respect and friendship habitually survive and transcend political conflict in the Mother of Parliaments. It is particularly appropriate that these all-party tributes on his birthday should be paid to [...]

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Churchill on Healthcare

October 19, 2009

I am hoping you can place in context a statement by Winston Churchill, which has been offered to show that he would support current U.S. heath care reform proposals. My own Catholic parish recently published the aforementioned statement in its weekly bulletin. What Would Winnie Do? Here’s an interesting quote. It’s from conservative British Prime Minister [...]

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“Winston” Olbermann and the Healthcare Debate

October 19, 2009

N.B.: If Mr. Olbermann had done more research, he would know what Churchill did say about national healthcare, which is more to the point: see Churchill and Healthcare. MSNBC commentator Keith Olbermann is for the proposed American healthcare reform bill, which is neither here nor there. What is interesting to Churchillians is his use of [...]

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The Un-great Non-debate

September 22, 2009

The Great Debate: “Resolved, that Winston Churchill was more a liability than an asset to the free world.” Sponsored by Intelligence Squared, viewable on C-Span. LONDON, SEPT. 3RD— It was avidly awaited but fell flat. Tabling a truly ridiculous motion, Intelligence Squared (“the only institution in town aside from Parliament to provide a forum for debate [...]

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