UPDATE; PEOPLE MAY LIKE TO KNOW THAT THE FOLLOWING HAS BEEN DELETED FROM THE DAILY MAIL’S WEBSITE AND FROM HARDCASTLE’S BLOG THINGY:-
Tory MP David Davis, 60, went ‘walkabout’, Aborigine-style, last year, quitting as shadow Home Secretary, ostensibly to campaign against 42-day detention for terrorist suspects. Some thought he found it difficult to adjust to the leadership of David Cameron, having gone for the top job himself. Now I see he’s speaking at the Libertarian Alliance’s annual conference in October. As an ex-Territorial SAS man, does he agree with their view – announced yesterday – that the Second World War was ‘the greatest single disaster in British and perhaps world history’ and – as for our war leader Winston Churchill – they wished that ‘the Fuzzy-Wuzzies had tried a little harder at Omdurman (where Churchill fought in 1898 during the Sudan campaign) and planted a spear in his belly.’? Perhaps Davis’s walkabout isn’t quite over.
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Stipulated I am a ‘churchillian’ as an emotional matter, this all does seem to be old (!) business.
Of course History, or rather /history-making/, hath its fazes & crazes, and I am accordingly a great fan of Baldwin these days, if not so much Neville….
But, a few posts back here, someone wrote (albeit rather apotropaically, in the manner of all ‘down-to-Earth’ unimaginative folk) that it is a matter of ‘taking Life as one finds it’. I expect surely that applies to the various interpretive crazes as much as to the veritable History, itself.
It is true, Churchill did have a big yen to get into the books, which was late-modern man’s solace for no longer having a believable religion — AND we should never have heard of him, of course, if it weren’t for “Hadolph ‘Itler!’
As the fellow said in Hyde Park corner at the August bank holiday, in 1986….
Here is a very canny review & no-end helpful review, by somebody or the other, of a book on the topic of the historical fallacies:
http://bodwyn.wordpress.com/2006/03/25/historians-fallacies/