One of the more irritating habits of modern politicians is to invoke the shade of Winston Churchill to lend their tawdry policies some of the glamour of the great man who in 1940 embodied Britain's will to resist Nazi conquest. It's bad enough when third rate politicians pull this tedious trick, but it is shocking indeed when a first rate historian does so. And it is still worse if the historian concerned misrepresents what Churchill truly thought when making his spurious comparison.
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