Michael White

@michaelwhite Chamberlain's government couldn't save Poland, nor could Winston save the East, there were limits to even his or other's ambitions. Like now in 1941 Britain was broke.

We still don’t know do we.

@michaelwhite It was not a mistake. It was also dictated by circumstances. The Soviet Army had lost almost all its commanding officers during the purge.

@michaelwhite Actually MW, that move to a deeply unequal society was underway before Reagan. In fact it’s always been there but the post WW2 great compression did provide some respite from which a great many people benefitted.

Churchill himself alluded to our alliance with the USSR in overtly Faustian terms. He used exactly that language. See his “a favourable reference to the Devil”. Have you got a better source on WW2 than WSC?

@michaelwhite I’m sure he’s all those things you say. I’m not sure that the ideological stranglehold that “liberals” had up until recently was excusable in any way.

@michaelwhite Well, she was forced to apologise, and I think she knew that what she said was wrong. However she clearly revelled in her freedom to be as racially unpleasant as she was.

@michaelwhite Don’t think that answers his charge.

@michaelwhite Your Xspondent here clearly has no grasp of history. Troops on the ground were what mattered in 1945. And surely war exhaustion also played a part. But VE Day did not signal the end of conflict in Europe as Keith Lowe demonstrates in his excellent Savage Continent.

@michaelwhite A little pedantic perhaps but it was the Soviet people, not exclusively the Russian, who paid that price. Relative to size of population Ukraine's losses were even heavier than Russias - up to 20% as opposed to perhaps 12%.

During WWII, the US and UK made a Faustian pact with #Russia to save the lives of their own by arming the Soviets. We sold out Eastern Europe, which fell behind the Iron Curtain for nearly 50 years. Saving Eastern Europe from #Putin isn’t charity, it’s paying our debts.

@michaelwhite I fear they will come to regret this decision, the next time a none white man (and it will be a man) commits some hideous crime, terror or not, will they react the same? Either way they will be dammed if they do and dammed if they don’t!

Though strangely,despite being unable to count the #Gaza dead,the #israel regime is able to give the exact number killed on 7/10/23,so for @DavidBaddiel #DavidBaddiel to change his book title from Jews Don't Count to Jews Can't Count might be inaccurate @michaelwhite @mattfrei

@michaelwhite I warned them at the time that an ideological division was coming in their country. That was eleven years ago, before Trump’s first term. I don’t support Trump but I wonder if his plans for the universities could be worse than what was in place.

@michaelwhite I have a degree from an American university. I remember very well the self-censorship in one of my classes when we had to take an obligatory course. I was the only one not scared to point out that the author I was assigned to present was a fraud, although the whole class knew it.