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Boris Johnson slammed as 'pound shop Winston Churchill tribute act' after damning Privileges Committee report

Conservative MPs in the North East have been silent so far on the report

Chronicle Live · Jun 15, 2023

When Winston Went to War With the Wireless review – radio is the star of BBC crisis drama

Jack Thorne’s dramatisation of the power play between the UK government and the broadcaster in 1920s Britain is pacy and evocative

The Guardian - UK · Jun 14, 2023

Boris Johnson scuttles away from his flagrant crimes, like a whingeing guilty schoolboy

He is taking the coward’s way out by quitting the Commons because he calculated that he was going to be sacked from parliament

The Guardian - UK · Jun 10, 2023

Leaders reflect on Churchill’s early hours visits to Roosevelt

Rishi Sunak vowed not to bother Joe Biden in the way the UK’s wartime leader had pestered the then US president.

The Independent UK · Jun 8, 2023

Trump accuses Ron DeSantis of ‘blatantly’ plagiarising his speech

Neither of the 2024 presidential primary candidates originated the phrase in question

The Independent UK · Jun 5, 2023

The other threat to Democracy

His "war on the woke" is silly but if Ron DeSantis has done nothing else, he's shown that he is deadly serious

Salon · Jun 5, 2023

We interrupt this broadcaster: why did Winston Churchill try to seize the BBC?

In 1926, with the General Strike looming and the right warning of a Bolshevik revolution, the BBC found itself in a dreadful dilemma. Writer Jack Thorne on why he turned this into ‘a love letter to people in authority’

The Guardian - UK · Jun 5, 2023

Butterfly loved by Churchill back in England after almost 100 years

Black-veined whites, thought to have died out in 1920s, have seemingly returned due to warmer climate

The Guardian - UK · Jun 4, 2023

Breakfasting with the stars: how the famous got their day going

For Marilyn Monroe it was eggs in a glass of milk, for Muhammad Ali it was steak… Rebecca Seal reveals what seven great figures from history had for breakfast - and how you can make it for yourself

The Guardian - UK · Jun 4, 2023

Sunak stresses need for ‘close’ relationship with Biden ahead of US trip

This week’s visit, which includes watching a baseball game, comes after a period of significant strain for the ‘special relationship’

The Independent UK · Jun 3, 2023