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  • Churchill myths and bad history are no reason to defend the ECHR

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    Defenders of the European Convention on Human Rights, from John Major to Keir Starmer, have peddled the fallacy that Winston Churchill was the brains behind it. He was no such thing, argues Yuan Yi Zhu Six decades after his passing, the legend of Sir Winston Churchill remains undiminished. Almost all of his contemporaries have faded [...]

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