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.

In handing over the Government of India to these so-called political classes, we are handing over to men of straw, of whom, in a few years, no trace will remain.

“Victory in spite of all terror!”...

When Churchill returned to the Conservative party in 1924, Stanley Baldwin, keen to be associated with moderate social reform, promoted him to Chancellor of the Exchequer. Churchill’s period as Chancellor was one of the happiest and most settled phases of his career. He was almost at the top.

Churchill having dinner with Stalin and Roosevelt at Teheran on his sixty-ninth birthday, 30 November 1943 copyright: Reproduced from The Broadwater Collection with the permission of Curtis Brown Group Ltd,...

There is nothing that gives greater pleasure to a speaker than seeing his great points go home. It is like the bullet that strikes the body of the victim.

It must be remembered that the function of Parliament is not only to pass good laws, but to stop bad laws.

Introduced by Richard M Langworth For better or worse, it was Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill who chaired the 1921 Cairo Conference which created the Middle East borders we still know today What...