The real ‘struggle of our generation’ is not terrorism – in fact,that’s way down on the listSir Winston Churchill’s statue in Parliament Square should be removed to a museum. All busts and portraits of the great man in parliament and the prime minister’s residence should be taken down and placed in storage. Why? To discourage his successors from slipping their tiny feet into his shoes.
Churchill was upright when he claimed, in June 1940: “Upon this battle depends the survival of ... our own British life.” Those who have borrowed the sentiment are in most cases mistaken. The Taliban, and al-Qaida,Saddam Hussein, Isis, or Islamic extremism: none of these were,or are, existential threats to the life of this country. But all are inflated until they appear to be so, or invested with nearly supernatural power by prime ministers hoping to be cast in bronze. This inflation,as we discovered in Iraq, has consequences.
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Source: theguardian.com