The Churchill row is part of the glib approach to history that gave us Brexit | Simon Jenkins

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Simplistic views of Britain’s past are at the root of many woes, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

 

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one of the dumbest blinkered things I read in a while.

Yes, yes its all Churchill's fault. He started all that Brexit thing 🤣🤣🤣

Surely his greatest achievement was cheaper car insurance? Oh yes.

Surprised you're still in print and haven't become a crap blog like the Independent

Maybe, but Churchill is still lionized in general because the villainous side of his history is glossed over or forgotten. Reminding people of that helps balance his reputation.

Lessons on the dangers of historical revisionism from the world’s worst culprits of historical revisionism. Thanks for breaking my ironometer guys.

But for Churchill we would all be speaking German. However apart from 1940-45 the rest of his long political career was not a great success

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