Persecution of Whistleblowers Makes a Mockery of Magna Carta
NOVANEWS
Winston Churchill is remembered as Britain’s defiant war leader. Few recall his later attempts to defend “the Great Charter” that is Magna Carta.
By Shane Quinn
Global Research
Winston Churchill is perhaps the most famous British Prime Minister of all, remembered best for standing alone against the Nazis as they conquered swathes of Europe in 1940.
Even Churchill’s biggest detractors could not deny his courage in fighting against daunting odds. In July 1940, during “Britain’s darkest hour”, he urged his countrymen to “strive without failing in faith or in duty, and the dark curse of Hitler will be lifted from our age”.
Churchill is widely respected in the English-speaking world, with past US President George W. Bushfamously placing a bust of Britain’s Prime Mi...