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PAUL THOMAS on… Winston Churchill’s statue being boarded up By Paul Thomas For The Daily Mail Published: 00:57 BST, 13 June 2020 | Updated: 01:23 BST, 13 June 2020 Advertisement To order a print of this Paul Thomas cartoon or one by Pugh, visit Mailpictures.newsprints.co.uk or call 0191 6030 178. Share or comment on this … Read more
Popular historian and bestselling author Tom Holland said many Britons will regard the boarding up of Winston Churchill’s statue as ‘sinister’ after it was covered to protect it from further attacks. Mr Holland, 52, also claimed the sight of locals in Poole, Dorset, needing to defend the statue of founder of the Scouting movement Robert Baden-Powell … Read more
Workers last night boarded up the Cenotaph and Winston Churchill’s statue to protect them from damage ahead of another weekend of protests in the capital. Scaffolding sprung up around Churchill’s statue at Parliament Square and the nearby Cenotaph late on Thursday evening after concerns they could yet again be targeted by Black Lives Matter activists. … Read more
The Black Lives Matter protester who ‘tagged’ the statue of Winston Churchill said he did it because Britain’s greatest Prime Minister was a ‘confirmed racist’ who cared more about colonialism than black people. The masked young man, who is being searched for by the Metropolitan Police today for the vandalism in Parliament Square, claimed that … Read more
Some images from the Black Lives Matter demonstration in London on Saturday will linger long in the memory. The sheer scale and physical density of the march, as viewed from above, is one, simultaneously impressive in its display of solidarity and terrifying for NHS medics anxious to avert a ‘second wave’ of Covid-19 infection. Then … Read more
‘Let us not forget the toils ahead’: How Churchill’s VE Day message and photos of jubliant Londoners hold haunting relevance today… as locked-down Britons prepare to mark 75 years since end of WWII Images of Britons celebrating victory over Nazi Germany have reemerged ahead of VE Day’s 75th anniversary Evocative pictures show the streets of … Read more
A 99-year-old war veteran who served in a secret unit created by Winston Churchill has died from coronavirus at a care home. Charles Wright, from Ipswich, Suffolk, was among a select few sent behind enemy lines during the second world war, before being captured and imprisoned for more than a year. His family sadly announced … Read more
Winston Churchill’s rousing speeches inspired a nation and played a key role in Britain’s morale during the dark early days of the Second World War. It was a time when the country was almost at its knees, with men dying and morale sinking. But Churchill’s defiant and powerful words allowed ordinary Britons, soldiers, sailors and … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK WORKING WITH WINSTON by Cita Stelzer (Head of Zeus £20, 400 pp) Fetch me klop!’ That was Winston Churchill, barking instructions to his quaking new secretary Kathleen Hill in 1937, on her first evening working for him. ‘Klop’ was Churchill’s private onomatopoeic word for his hole-puncher. But Kathleen had no idea … Read more