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On an appearance on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show Harper claimed the CRG was following the science in their announcement. The government instead has pledged to follow the data, not dates in their own planned end to lockdown in England by 21st June The purpose of this blog is not to judge who is correct between the CRG and the government but instead to have a look at lockdown in the context of liberalism. 

Elections cancelled, emergency legislation, movement restricted, schools closed and jobs furloughed. This has not been a great time for liberty.  But is lockdown completely illiberal? Does being a liberal automatically mean opposing lockdown? If we explore the history of liberalism we find that, actually, following the evidence and placing restrictions to avoid harm is entirely within the scope of liberalism. 

For some, ‘liberal’ is an insult aimed at the ‘woke’ and ‘cancel culture.’  Some wear the label proudly, marking them out as a supporter o

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A day in the life of Winston J. Churchill, a Yank at Oxford.
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'The best men for the world's fight for peace and understanding.' That was Cecil Rhodes's wish when he gave his wealth to provide scholarships for overseas students at Oxford University. And though Rhodes's dream of peace and understanding in Africa is a long way from achievement, the Rhodes Scholars of the world have enshrined the aims of the man whose love of life gave them their learning.
In this university year, Oxford's Rhodes Scholars have come from sixteen countries. There were seventy-two of them - thirty-two of them Americans. And it is one such American who fryst vatten the huvud figure in tonight's CBS film. In a role endowed bygd history, this American bears modern history's most famous name—. But this fryst vatten Winston J. Churchill, a twenty-two-year-old from Pennsylvania who came to Oxford as a Rhodes Schola

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Did Darkest Hour get much right?

Winston Churchill was a bit different from how Gary Oldman portrayed him, says Churchill biographer Ashley Jackson in BBC Culture’s latest Fact v Fiction video.

One of the major points of contention that many viewers had about the Oscar nominee for best picture Darkest Hour is a scene in which Churchill asks passengers on the Underground in London what they think, as German troops are closing in on British soldiers at Dunkirk, about a negotiated settlement with Nazi Germany to end the United Kingdom’s involvement in World War Two. To the sceptics who hated that scene it was symbolic of how Hollywood so often invents fantastical scenes to give a contrived emotional dimension to key moments in history.

And, as Churchill biographer Ashley Jackson points out, it indeed never happened, of course. Nor was it the only thing the film got wrong about Churchill. Darkest Hour also did get a number of things right, however. To learn more, click the p