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publicola1990 | 2 years ago

Do English intellectuals even criticise Churchill?

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dotancohen|2 years ago

Honestly, English intellectuals are a good yardstick for how history will remember people and events. If the English intellectuals esteem someone or some event, then generally those people and events are widely considered disparaged two generations down.

bazoom42|2 years ago

Since English intellectuals at the time included both Orwell and TS Eliot (and I suppose Tolkien and Chesterton and Aleister Crowley) is it really fair to paint them with such a broad brush?

ReptileMan|2 years ago

So we know where Jim Cramer descends from ...

simonh|2 years ago

Oh boy, do they ever.