Winston Churchill’s Woke Critics Engage in Falsehoods

When I started writing books about Winston Churchill and his contemporaries 30 years ago, virulent Churchill-hatred was confined to fascists, Marxists, and the swivel-eyed loons of the “green ink brigade” (so called for their vividly penned letters to the editor). Today, however, it has metastasized into the academy and is in danger of becoming received wisdom on the Left there — which in practice in the modern academy means everywhere.

One might have hoped that this vicious new atmosphere of Churchill-hatred that is being actively fostered in our seats of higher learning would at least not have been furthered at Churchill College, Cambridge, which was created specifically to honor his memory. There, surely, his strengths and weaknesses might have been debated in an atmosphere of objectivity and scholarship. It is, after all, the site of the Churchill Archives Centre, which houses all his papers.

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Andrew Roberts

Andrew Roberts is the author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny and a member of the House of Lords.

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When I started writing books about Winston Churchill and his contemporaries 30 years ago, virulent Churchill-hatred was confined to fascists, Marxists, and the swivel-eyed loons of the “green ink brigade” (so called for their vividly penned letters to the editor). Today, however, it has metastasized into the academy and is in danger of becoming received wisdom on the Left there — which in practice in the modern academy means everywhere.

One might have hoped that this vicious new atmosphere of Churchill-hatred that is being actively fostered in our seats of higher learning would at least not have been furthered at Churchill College, Cambridge, which was created specifically to honor his memory. There, surely, his strengths and weaknesses might have been debated in an atmosphere of objectivity and scholarship. It is, after all, the site of the Churchill Archives Centre, which houses all his papers.