Watch Intelligence Squared online: Episode 15 Churchill was more a liability than an asset to the free world

Winston Churchill is often held up as a champion of freedom and a symbol of Britain’s determination to defend the world from the perils of Nazism, but do we see Churchill through rose-tinted glasses? Are we forgetting his authorisation of the RAF’s ‘terror-bombing’ of German cities in World War 2, or his starvation blockade of Germany during the Great War? And what about the military catastrophes he masterminded at Gallipoli (1915) and Norway (1940)? An esteemed panel debate Churchill’s true legacy.

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