This week, Tony Blair departed office after ten years, the British Labour Party’s longest-serving prime minister, the only person to have led the party to three consecutive general election victories, and the only Labour prime minister to serve more than…

There have been recent efforts by pundits, foreign affairs analysts and historians to cut to consign to disrepute the ideas Winston Churchill personified or to cast him as an exponent of their opposite. Why these exertions? Let’s examine what these…