The American Spectator

Among the Intellectualoids

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p>Previously, the BBC's Radio Times had claimed in a program note: br> /p>

History may regard Winston Churchill as the architect of the disastrous Gallipoli campaign, or the maker of xenophobic speeches, but tonight we consider him, in philanthropic old age, as Churchill the European.

br> This was reportedly written not by an office-boy from a sink-comprehensive school or printed at the dictation of the Gauleiter of an occupying enemy power, but by a professional journalist, Sue Gaisford.

There are countless other instances of similar things. In Malvern, Worcestershire, the Elgar Hall, named after Sir Edward Elgar, who composed the music of "Land of Hope and Glory," was renamed "New Space."

In 2004 the Anglican Bishop of Hulme, the Rt. Rev. Stephen Lowe, banned the hymn "I vow to thee, my country," in his diocese, claiming its popularity was a symptom of a dangerous increase in English nationalism which paralleled the rise of Nazism. The bishop claimed it was dangerous to suggest British culture was somehow superior.

It all points to something very odd happening in that aforementioned "rough island story." For the first time in nearly a thousand years, England is being run, at an important level, by people who hate it.

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