NO, CHURCHILL WASN’T THE BAD GUY

David Coates on the debate over Britain’s wartime leader, reignited by an ignorant revisionist account of the origins of the Second World War

THE DEBATE ABOUT WINSTON CHURCHILL and his legacy has resurfaced in recent weeks, following an interview Tucker Carlson held with a podcaster named Darryl Cooper. Cooper attempted to present a revisionist account of the origins and continuance of the Second World War, arguing that Churchill was “the chief villain” of the conflict and employing the passive voice to explain the millions “who ended up dead” in the East as a consequence of a lack of logistic foresight by the Nazis. This was not a serious work of Churchill revisionism, and Cooper must have recognised the inadequacy of his position when he refused to publicly debate with a genuine historian, Andrew Roberts, who is one of Churchill’s most convincing modern defenders. Contributions from the most ignorant of revisionists (Cooper describes a…

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