Andrew roberts winston churchill5/20/2023 The historian on the panel confused Ernest Bevin with Aneurin Bevan. Unlike Oxford, Cambridge, didn’t bother to hold an alleged debate. The difference was that Keynes, a scholar, offered a serious intellectual argument. Churchill.” The title spins off John Maynard Keynes’s 1925 critique, The Economic Consequences of Mr. Similarly, Cambridge University produced “The Racial Consequences of Mr. Masani’s doughty riposte can be seen here.) “I was pitted single-handed to argue against a blatantly partisan motion and constantly heckled,” he writes, “with no attempt by the chair or secretary to maintain order.” (Dr. The lone aberrant was the historian Zareer Masani. Last year the Oxford Union resolved “That this House believes the British Empire is a national disgrace.” Three speakers argued the affirmative. It is a very disquieting and disgusting symptom.”Įight decades later Churchill himself is the target of disquieting and disgusting symptoms. The Times talked of ‘the Children’s Hour.’ I disagree. We are told that we ought not to treat it seriously. In 1933, Hitler became Chancellor of Germany and the Oxford Union passed a resolution: “That this House refuses in any circumstances to fight for King and Country.” A week later Winston Churchill said: “We have all seen with a sense of nausea the abject, squalid, shameless avowal made in the Oxford Union. Published by kind permission of the authors and Policy Exchange. Cambridge University, “ The Racial Consequences of Mr.
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