Are the charges true? Andrew Roberts answers in one word: “yes.” Churchill did not create the paramilitary constabulary which wrecked violence in Ireland in 1920-21. So what about the Black and Tans in Ireland? Edginton asks our historian. (Yes, of course, in a political life from the cavalry charge at Omdurman to space travel, he went wrong-sometimes embarrassingly wrong.) As in his Churchill biography, Walking with Destiny, Andrew honestly acknowledges where Churchill went wrong. Edginton has done his homework, and confronts Roberts with a cornucopia of charges. I consider Andrew Roberts one of the good guys. It also includes close to 200 “Red Herrings,” which WSC never said: listed here and frequently updated. So, full disclosure: I am highly biased. I appreciate Andrew Roberts’ very kind mention (minute 22) of my book, Churchill by Himself, a cornucopia of 4000 notable Churchill quotations. The wartime prime minister’s statue in Parliament Square was tarred with the words “racist” after the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020. But to some, Churchill represents the evils of the British Empire: racism, colonization and violence. Winston Churchill is the man who saved not only Britain but the world from Nazi tyranny.
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