A 1926 article from the Guardian archives tells the story of the visit by Winston Churchill, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, to a cave in the Ceannacroc Forest in the Highlands as recounted by the Reverend A.E. Robertson of the Scottish Mountaineering Club to the annual meeting of the Cairngorm Club at Aberdeen. The article is here.
A new exhibition, “A History of Winston Churchill in 50 Objects,” will open at Chartwell in January 2019. The exhibit will include many of Churchill’s cherished possessions, such as a Churchill painting and part of Pluto Cable, which went under the English Channel to provide fuel for the D-Day landings. An article on the exhibit from the Bromley Borough News is here.
Bret Stephens, a columnist with the New York Times, despairs in his piece “An Antidote to Idiocy in ‘Churchill’,” that “we live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.” He recommends Winston Churchill as an example to be emulated in cases of such hectoring. Stephens comments that reading about the British prime minister in Andrew Roberts’s Churchill: Walking with Destiny is “an antidote to the reigning conceits, self-deceptions, half-truths and clichés of our day.” The article is here.