The Independent: Churchill was a politically complex man – but he was certainly a racist
"Many historians have tried to make sense of our former prime minister and his times. He was a racist, but also anti-fascist; he was anti-communist, yet carved up Europe and gifted much of it to Stalin" BY: Sean O'Grady PEJOURNAL - “Churchill was a racist” was the graffiti on the fine statue of the old man on Parliament square. In the big scheme of things, it’s a minor piece of vandalism – but an unfortunate one as, quite unlike the defenestration of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol, the wartime prime minister is an obviously revered national hero. The desecration…