Alex Mayer: ‘Let us learn from wartime Brits and re-adopt Churchill Time’

This weekend the clocks change and just like that, the evenings will stretch out lighter as British Summer Time begins. It is a time of the year that certainly cheers me up — unlike the descent into darkness in the autumn. Our time has been going backwards and forwards for decades — ever since 1916 […]

Churchill, Plato, and the ‘noble lie’

People really like Winston Churchill. Poll after poll shows just how much the British public adore him. When we’re asked, “who’s your hero?”, he’s the second most common answer, just after our parents. He’s seen as the greatest Prime Minister of all time. MPs across the political divide still use his name in a whole […]

The Political Week Online: UKIP if you want to – courting the Kippers

Race-based sexual volcanoes are taking it a bit far, even if the Tories are trying on a bit of the UKIP look this week. Meanwhile, Wikileaks give us lulz, Winston Churchill gets put on fivers, and George Galloway says silly things. Or, as he calls them, things.

Got change for a Winston? Churchill’s face coming to a fiver near you

Winston Churchill is to become only the second ever prime minister to feature on a banknote.

2011 or 1940? European crisis is a case of history repeating

The current furore over Europe within the Conservative party is nothing new, as Ben Brown’s new play reveals.