A statue of Winston Churchill may have to be put in a museum to protect it if demonstrations continue, his granddaughter has said.
Emma Soames told the BBC the war-time prime minister was a "complex man" but he was considered a hero by millions.
She said she was "shocked" to see the monument in London's Parliament Square boarded up, although she said she understood why this was necessary.
It came after protesters daubed "was a racist" on the statue last weekend.
Ms Soames said it was "extraordinarily sad that my grandfather, who was such a unifying figure in this country, appears to have become a sort of icon through being controversial."
"We've come to this place where history is viewed only entirely through the prism of the present," she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
"Darwin was the first to use data from nature to convince people that evolution is true, and his idea of natural selection was truly novel. It testifies to his genius that the concept of natural theology, accepted by most educated Westerners before 1859, was vanquished within only a few years by a single five-hundred-page book. On the Origin of Species turned the mysteries of life's diversity from mythology into genuine science." -- Jerry Coyne
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Saturday, June 13, 2020
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
I found this Winston Churchill quote in a comment at the New York Times. The article was about why Trump might win the election in November.
The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
-- Winston Churchill
UPDATE:
According to somebody who wrote another comment, Winston Churchhill never said that.
What Churchill really said was "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others that have been tried from time to time."
-- Winston Churchill
UPDATE:
According to somebody who wrote another comment, Winston Churchhill never said that.
What Churchill really said was "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others that have been tried from time to time."
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