After the fall of France 85 years ago and at the moment of gravest national peril, Winston Churchill said that Britain, with its values of democracy, liberty and support for vulnerable nations under attack, would prevail: “Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth lasts for 1,000 years, men will still say this was our finest hour.”
Churchill’s peroration of his famous June 1940 speech must be our national rallying cry today. Would that more media outlets were taking the strong stance of The Independent in standing up for Churchillian moral values in the face of its widespread abandonment on both sides of the Atlantic.
