My father just sent me an email, in response to me saying I want to know more about Winston Churchill. The email needs no preface.
Winston Churchill was a bully, a snob, an imperialist of the worst sort. Indeed, he had a way with words, inherited by his even more despicable father, Sir Randolph [Winston was Shane Leslie’s first cousin]. His father would belong to any party that would give him preference, and he turned back the cause of Ireland by many decades [perhaps permanently] by coining the phrase “Ulster will fight and Ulster will be right”–this backing of the minority rule brigades in Ireland was furthered by his son–while making outward overtures for home-rule he threatened the republicans with overwhelming force, and eventually at the beginning of WWII he conspired to take over the port cities of Ireland. The man was reprehensible. your loving dad.
