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IS NOTHING SACRED? – FROM DAILY MAIL:   A charity named after Winston Churchill has provoked fury by rebranding itself amid concerns over his views on race.  The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust has removed pictures of the wartime leader from its website and is changing its name to the Churchill Fellowship. Volunteers at the trust said it was 'rewriting history'.  One told The Sun: 'He was voted, by the people, as the Greatest Briton in a BBC poll in 2002 but is now erased from his own charity by the woke brigade.   'You can't imagine what he would have to say about it all but I'm sure he wouldn't think it was Britain's finest hour.'  Another volunteer said: 'It beggars belief that the man who saved this nation in our darkest hour finds himself cancelled in this way.'  The trust was set up after the death of Sir Winston in 1965 to help send British citizens abroad on travel scholarships known as Churchill Fellowships. Trustees include Sir Winston's grandson Jeremy Soames.  A statement on the trust's website last night said: 'Today there is controversy about aspects of Sir Winston's life. Many of his views on race are widely seen as unacceptable today, a view that we share. Shame, shame.  Of course some of Churchill's views wouldn't be acceptable today.  That's always the case with historical figures.  What is acceptable, and worthy of intense praise, was Churchill's standing alone in defense of democracy as Britain's prime minister, leading his beleaguered nation through the murderous Blitz of 1940.  His heroic stand, together with some of the most inspired speeches of modern history, prevented the collapse of freedom's cause in Europe, and gave America time to prepare.  Now we must preserve Churchill's name, under assault from the moronic precincts of the far left.

September 8, 2021