Winston Churchill
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A strong, effective Navy can’t be built in a day, nor does it forgive a lackadaisical approach to maintenance or modernisation
Farrukh Dhondy | When fantasy pretends to be history… Does truth prevail?
Gentle reader, there has always been a conflict between truth and blind nationalist interpretation of events
Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Can a ‘flexible’ Liz Truss usher in ‘Global Britain’?
Long the front-runner in the race to replace Boris Johnson, Ms Truss is the Conservatives’ fourth Prime Minister since the 2015 election
Aakar Patel | What India will we leave for future generations? Some thoughts on I-Day
The people are useful for the State as they give it legitimacy, but they are also seen as a nuisance that gets in the way of government
Farrukh Dhondy | Why democracy often turns ugly: Prejudice & hate as Batley votes
The byelection for a Member of Parliament in the Yorkshire constituency of Batley was a paradigm of this ugliness
Britain cannot ‘photoshop’ its cultural landscape: Johnson
PM Johnson defends Churchill, criticises 'distortion of our history'
Authorities remove slave trader statue in London
Statues glorifying slave traders and colonialists have come into sharp focus in recent days inspired by the Black Lives Matter protests
UK protesters take down slave trader’s statue, dump it in harbour
Protesters also defaced statue of former British PM Winston Churchill, crossing out his last name and painting 'was a racist' underneath
Modi, Trump take ties to a more robust level
The visuals were beamed live across India, the United States and at least half the world.
In the age of post-truths, what colour is your favourite lie?
The thing is, this all gets messy remarkably quickly, because of the sheer variety of ways there are of being wrong.