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Churchill once challenged BBC intolerance

19 June 2020

5:17 PM

19 June 2020

5:17 PM

Winston Churchill: hero or villain? That was the question the BBC asked on its website on 10 June. It caused outrage in some quarters, but was Auntie taking its revenge for the humiliation it suffered at Churchill’s libertarian hands during the second world war?

In the summer of 1940, a movement was launched in Britain called the ‘People’s Convention’, which brought together a disparate alliance of Marxists, socialists and pacifists.

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Gavin Mortimer's book, The Greatest: how the world war two generation can help us overcome crises, will be published by Constable in October.


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