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A politics lecturer has hit out at Liverpool University's plans to drop the name of former Prime Minister William Gladstone from a building because of his family's links to the slave trade. The university emailed staff on Tuesday confirming that the plans to rename the Gladstone Hall student accommodation building, which were initially announced in June, are set to go ahead. They said the decision was being made because of 'the strength of feeling evoked in our student community by the Gladstone family's historic ownership of enslaved people, and their profiting from the transatlantic trade i...

Professor Kehinde Andrews of Birmingham City University sneered that Churchill had not fought personally in the Second World War. "I mean, was it Churchill out there fighting the war?" he said. "Cause I'm pretty sure it wasn't; I'm pretty sure he was at home." Ignoring the fact that Churchill was 65 when the war broke out, and thus way past the age of conscription, in fact Churchill showed great personal bravery, going up on to the Air Ministry roof during the Blitz, and travelling 110,000 miles outside the UK, often within the radius of Luftwaffe fighters. "I'm pretty sure that if Churchill ...

1 Mar 2021 Sir Winston Churchill’s grandson, Sir Nicholas Soames, has joined a prominent historian for a comprehensive fisking of the case against the wartime leader advanced by left-wing academics at a Churchill College seminar. Priyamvada Gopal, Onyeka Nubia, Kehinde Andrews, and Madhusree Mukerjee had slated the British icon at the college bearing his name in a seminar titled  The Racial Consequences of Mr Churchill, in which he was described as “the perfect embodiment of white supremacy” and the empire he led to victory over Hitler’s Germany branded “far worse than the Nazis.�...

Churchill’s grandson questions link with Cambridge college after ‘trashing’ Robert Dex Winston Churchill’s grandson has questioned whether a Cambridge University college should continue to benefit from the association with the former prime minister after hosting an event “trashing” his reputation. Ex-Conservative MP Sir Nicholas Soames said an academic event hosted online by Churchill College was “idiotically sloppy”. The former minister said the event on February 11 – titled The Racial Consequences of Churchill – marked a “new low in the current vogue fo...

Trending He continued that it marked a "new low in the current vogue for the denigration in general of British history and of Sir Winston Churchill’s memory in particular". In the paper for the Policy Exchange think-tank he said: "If there was one academic institution in the world that one would hope and expect would give Churchill a full and fair hearing, rather than give a platform to those who overlook his astonishing contribution to the defeat of the most murderously racist regime in all history, it surely should be Churchill College Cambridge. "The college was named in my grandfather�...