Abhor Andrew Neill for so many good reasons, but his C4 Dispatched evisceration of Johnson - and further destroying Gove in the process as an added bonus - was a great watch. Won't change anything mind ..
Which reminds me, yesterday Christopher Chope condemned the Met for their obvious human shielding Luckily, given it's Chope, any unpleasant feeling of agreeing with him on one thing will doubtless be washed off within a week when he demands to have rape decriminalised or something like that
Javid now desperately claiming UK has 'authorised' a new cancer drug. A drug that has been available in the UK for 5 years before the Authorisation last year. Tories really have taken gaslighting to a whole new level.
"Thou shalt not bear false witness", motherfucker. See also Exodus 23: 1-3: "You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness. You shall not fall in with the many to do evil, nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit, siding with the many, so as to pervert justice, nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his lawsuit." How about a good, old-fashioned stoning?
There's a very simple answer as to why a lot of people in this country are so enamoured with Churchill. WWII. He lead the country in a war against the Nazis. It's one of the clearest evil enemies of all time. They know that and that he liked a drink and had some funny comebacks and it's enough. No need to look much deeper than that, I don't think.
Yeah, but we're milking it a bit by this point, which makes it look like we've done **** all as a nation since 1945 It also has to be said you don't see Americans deify FDR like we do with Churchill
I'd suggest that it's because promoting those figures works differently for those at the top. Roosevelt's New Deal was a bit socialist and involved banking regulation. Can't have that. Churchill's United States of Europe and ECHR stuff is very much brushed under the carpet, so the right can laud him.
Also overlook how the Yalta conference basically involved FDR and Stalin waiting for Churchill to finish making a suggestion so they could ignore it completely and carry on as if he wasn't there, and then taking the piss out of him when he wasn't in the room
