Interestingly, bearing in mind his early prognostications, as an adult Churchill was convinced that he would die young, and kept thinking it until well after WW2. Which is odd...
@39:00. To say 'it must be innate; he definitely didn't get it from his parents" is surely pretty much incoherent. Genes?!? I'm surprised Holland didn't take the opportunity for some friendly ribbing.
@@yingyang1008 There is a endless passion for crapping on our great figures in the West. It’s about the only thing the West expends any energy on these days. All figures are complex and good and bad, So you saying this complete spoilt barbarian buffoon bully boy ran through the gauntlet of all British society and succeeded? This utter buffoon did all that? This utter buffoon was spot on regarding the Nazis and everyone else felt like giving up?! I’m just so tired of the sticking of the knife in to our own body and giving it the full twist. Churchill did more before breakfast than most of us will do our whole lives.
Thank you for this podcast, and the book recommendation, now on my reading list.
How many like me have ordered My Early Life? I can't wait to read it. Marvelous job guys!
Just found this podcast and subscribed yesterday, and I'm a big Churchill fan!
Andrew Roberts' Walking With Destiny is a tremendous biography of Churchill.
i nearly keyboarded when Dominick says "was that Marilyn Monroe Tim?
Interestingly, bearing in mind his early prognostications, as an adult Churchill was convinced that he would die young, and kept thinking it until well after WW2. Which is odd...
@39:00. To say 'it must be innate; he definitely didn't get it from his parents" is surely pretty much incoherent. Genes?!? I'm surprised Holland didn't take the opportunity for some friendly ribbing.
I wonder what Churchill would make of his great grandson selling his soul and the nation down the river with his management of Serco ?
Churchill was an interesting and flawed character. His raging alcoholism certainly contributed to his unpleasant characteristics.
I’ve just started listening so don’t know what’s ahead, but guessing he will be dumped on.
as he should be
@@yingyang1008 There is a endless passion for crapping on our great figures in the West. It’s about the only thing the West expends any energy on these days. All figures are complex and good and bad, So you saying this complete spoilt barbarian buffoon bully boy ran through the gauntlet of all British society and succeeded? This utter buffoon did all that? This utter buffoon was spot on regarding the Nazis and everyone else felt like giving up?!
I’m just so tired of the sticking of the knife in to our own body and giving it the full twist. Churchill did more before breakfast than most of us will do our whole lives.