Boris Johnson Archives - Richard M. Langworth

Bring Boris Back? British Politicians, Churchillian Nicknames

26 July 2022 Comments 0 Comments

British politicians have such wonderful names. If your own isn't fun enough, your fellow MPs may provide a more amusing one. In the postwar Labour government, Attorney General Sir Hartley Shawcross began sounding more and more Conservative. So his fellow MPs dubbed him Sir Shortly Floorcross....

Defcon 1: The Urgent Defense of Churchill’s Name and Legacy

16 June 2020 Comments 0 Comments

Case for the defense: “If we allow our monuments and statues and place-names to be torn down because of our present-day views, and claims of people being offended by our built environment that has been around for decades and sometimes centuries, it speaks to a pathetic lack of confidence in ourselves as a nation. We are on the way to a society of competing victimhoods, atomized and balkanized into smaller and smaller communities, which ironically enough is something racists want too.” —Andrew Roberts

Defense of the good

The Hillsdale College Churchill Project has joined many other groups and individuals in defense of the good.…

British Election for Dummies: Churchillian Reflections from Afar

13 December 2019 Comments 5 Comments

…In which an ignorant Yank with a slight remembrance of history ponders the implications. (Friends in Hertfordshire write: “What an election. Let’s hope now we can move on and sort this country out and become Great Britain again.🇬🇧“) Electoral map image reproduced under the Creative Commons -Share Alike 4.0 International license. For a detailed map with results by name or constituency, see Bloomberg News. Piers Morgan on ardent anti-Brexit actor Hugh Grant: “Hugh’s sorry now. Corbyn’s celebrity fans weep into their almond milk lattes.” Note: Even Grant approved Johnson’s campaign ad, spun off of Hugh’s charming film “Love Actually.”…