Winston Churchill Articles

What Hammer of the Left can tell us now John Golding, employment minister in James Callaghan’s government and my predecessor-but-one, died all too prematurely, aged just 67. His funeral took place on the day my eldest was born, so I paid my last respects by writing...

I have just returned from one of my regular trips to Jordan where I am working on a political development project. Nothing much happened while I was away did it? In Jordan we hosted a well-attended meeting of all the political parties to talk about building membership...

We are the true guardians of the spirit of 1945 One of the most thought-provoking questions on the state of the Labour party after the general election defeat came from my six-year-old daughter. That is not explicitly a comment on the rigour of the Labour leadership...

Boris Johnson’s latest book centres on his view that Winston Churchill, and Winston Churchill alone, ‘made the difference’ in the outcome of the second world war. It opens by describing – and returns several times to – a decisive meeting of the war cabinet in 1940. At...