It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth a good hand – before really plunging

Although it seemed unlikely that Churchill, who had led Britain to victory, could lose, he didn’t help his cause His broadcasts seemed ill-judged and out of touch with the swing in...

Introduced by Richard M Langworth...

On 3 September 1939, Winston Churchill returned to the Admiralty (an image that appeared ten years later on the cover of the popular magazine, Picture Post, in commemoration of the day...

Few people practice what they preach, and no one less so than Mr Bernard Shaw ... He is at once an acquisitive capitalist and a sincere Communist.

It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth a good hand – before really plunging.

In May 1926 the Trades Union Congress called a national stoppage – or general strike – in support of the miners who were being asked to work longer hours for less...

Churchill, ‘How Can We Defend Ourselves?, The Daily Mail, 17th November 1932 copyright: Churchill Archives Centre...

Unduly stocked with peppery, pugnacious, proud politicians and theologians.