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Jan 23, 2015 · On Thursday, the Magazine looked at the greatest controversies of Winston Churchill's career. Here, the BBC's world affairs editor examines how an all-too-human politician became a great...
Sep 17, 2022 · Sky News looks at what happened at the last state funeral in Britain for Sir Winston Churchill in 1965, as the nation prepares to bid a final farewell to the Queen on Monday.
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Jun 10, 2020 · A statue of Winston Churchill was sprayed with graffiti during recent protests in London, with claims that the former prime minister was racist. Government ministers condemned the "vandalism...
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- Views on race. In April last year, Labour candidate Benjamin Whittingham tweeted that Churchill was "a racist and white supremacist". Sir Nicholas Soames, Churchill's grandson, was outraged.
- Poison gas. Churchill has been criticised for advocating the use of chemical weapons - primarily against Kurds and Afghans. "I cannot understand this squeamishness about the use of gas," he wrote in a memo during his role as minister for war and air in 1919.
- Bengal famine. In 1943, India, then still a British possession, experienced a disastrous famine in the north-eastern region of Bengal - sparked by the Japanese occupation of Burma the year before.
- Statements about Gandhi. Churchill had strong views on the man now widely respected for his work in advocating self-determination for India. "It is alarming and nauseating to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir… striding half-naked up the steps of the Vice-regal Palace," Churchill said of his anti-colonialist adversary in 1931.
The Old War Office was once a base for spies and military might, but what happened within its walls? All the latest content about Winston Churchill from the BBC.
Dec 17, 2023 · The International Churchill Society (ICS), founded in 1968 shortly after Churchill's death, is the world’s preeminent member organisation dedicated to preserving the historic legacy of Sir Winston Churchill.
Sep 19, 2022 · Boris Johnson wanted to be like his hero Winston Churchill: a larger-than-life character who led Britain through a time of crisis.