![]() ![]() He travelled to America and Cuba, India and Africa, and sent stories back to newspapers in Britain about his adventures. Although he loved reading, poetry and history, and was good at fencing, he struggled at school because he had bad handwriting and kept losing his books! But he managed to pass his exams.Īs a young man, Winston went to Sandhurst, the Army college, and then joined the British cavalry. He was sent away to the first of three boarding schools at 7 years old, including Harrow School from age 13. He had a traditional, privileged upbringing, being raised by a nanny (of whom he was very fond) with his younger brother. Winston Churchill was the son of Lord Randolph Churchill, a politician and wealthy artistocrat, and Jennie, an American. Why not learn something about Winston Churchill on that day, and try some of the activities below. It is the day that Winston Churchill was made an honorary citizen of the United States. It's a slow burn, but I'm gripped.Winston Churchill Day, 9th April, is marked in the US. ![]() It promises to be a compelling conclusion with a revision of who were the good and bad guys. I reckon by the end of the 10-parter (we're only half way through in the UK), we'll have an awful lot more sympathy for Lewinsky than she has ever received from a public only too happy to condemn the "scarlet woman" rather than the powerful man. We learn the story from Monica's point of view, witnessing how ‑ despite her fierce loyalty to the president and determination not to tell all - she was lured into a legal quagmire by another woman, the baddie of the piece, her co-worker and ultimate "Judas" Linda Tripp. It shows a very different perspective from the one we gleaned from the sensational news reports ‑ that President Bill Clinton was indeed impeached because of his various questionable claims, including "not having sexual relations with that woman ‑ Lewinksy". OJ Simpson) is actually co-produced by Lewinsky herself. This TV series (made by the same people as The People v. Only if you are a particular fan of US politics would you have delved deeper behind the lewd headlines of the 1990s to find out what really happened. I am hooked on TV's Impeachment: American Crime Story, which tells the tale of Monica Lewinsky, a name that was once so infamous it almost brought down a US president. Impeachment: American Crime Story is a compelling and gripping TV series Ironic then that their creator should suffer the ignominy of being unceremoniously cancelled from a London primary. "Each house," says the book, "has its own noble history and each has produced outstanding witches and wizards." The wizard school, Hogwarts, had four houses: Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin. But surely she is still a record-breaking author, a rags-to-riches single parent, charity campaigner and philanthropist? Ironically, she lionised the whole importance of house names in her Harry Potter books. True also that JK Rowling has made comments which some find transphobic. Judged by our more enlightened attitudes today, we would find some of his actions and thoughts unacceptable.īut we shouldn't have to defend him against the wokery of our time. Could it be because they haven't been taught enough about him and his colourful and difficult life, and the greater context of the world he lived in? Churchill was a heroic wartime leader, and one to whom we still owe the freedoms we enjoy today ‑ even the freedom of speech enjoyed by the very children who voted to drop him. ![]()
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