Bridget Phillipson has been accused of allowing the Education Blob to run riot with her Schools Bill, slipping in horrors that the Tories rejected and moving the system towards the Nazi-style one that MPs rejected in 1944.
Churchill was not “the chief villain of the Second World War”. But this doesn't mean he's immune from criticism. One decision that has long plagued his legacy is the alliance he formed with Joseph Stalin.
Boris Johnson liked to see himself as a modern day Winston Churchill, perhaps no more so than when he imposed the first Covid lockdown on March 23rd 2020. But in truth that was the day he failed history, says Neil Datson.
I spent last Saturday ‘guarding’ Churchill’s statue in Parliament Square in case it was assaulted by any masked protestors carrying spray cans and Palestinian flags. Things did not turn out as I expected.
Scotland Yard has included the Cenotaph as well as the statues of Winston Churchill, Horatio Nelson, Earl Mountbatten and Oliver Cromwell on a list of ‘contentious’ monuments.
