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The Language: Some Issues over “Issues”

17 September 2019 Comments 3 Comments

Trashing tradition

“Issues over Issues” is reprinted with revisions from an essay in 2007.

“I confess myself to be a great admirer of tradition. The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward….The wider the span, the longer the continuity, the greater is the sense of duty in individual men and women, each contributing their brief life’s work to the preservation and progress of the land in which they live, the society of which they are members, and the world of which they are the servants.” —Winston S. Churchill, Royal College of Physicians, 2 March 1944

“The Cardinals’ bus from their hotel in midtown Manhattan was delayed by more than an hour as it made its way to the ballpark on Wednesday.…

Winston Churchill: Myth and Reality

13 January 2016 Comments 0 Comments

Per the previous post, I append for reader comment the contents of my next book, Winston Churchill, Myth and Reality: What Churchill Stood For.

I have written on most of these matters in the past; the book recasts it afresh. I also acknowledge and cross-reference the work of experts who know far more than I, particularly in the fields of genealogy and medicine. I would be glad to hear your thoughts; please use the “contact” page.

The historian David Stafford wrote: “Myth only develops and takes hold when the time is right, and the climate has long been ripe for the emergence of myths about a wartime hero who stood firm against a totalitarian foe and smote an evil empire.”…

El-Sisi: The Churchill Test

9 November 2014 Comments 0 Comments

No Man of God, but Maybe Our Man…

On Christmas eve 1944, Prime Minister Winston Churchill left family celebrations and flew to Athens to mediate the Greek civil war. Communists and royalists were fighting it out, but, armed with one promise Josef Stalin actually kept, Churchill thought he could give Greece a chance at democracy.

(Stalin’s kept promise was the roundly-condemned “percentages agreement” in Moscow a few weeks earlier, which gave Britain a sphere of influence in Greece in exchange for Soviet spheres in pretty much the rest of Eastern Europe.)

Churchill had never heard of Archbishop Damaskinos, the man his Foreign Office said might reconcile the factions and head off a Communist takeover.…