"Migrants are being torn apart at the border" No push back on that comment?

Churchill had one great episode in his life ; but for the most part he was an unbearable bore !

Churchill sent the Black and Tans to Ireland

If anybody has any leads on the suspicion that Churchill manipulated the Irish Civil war behind the scenes...would be grateful for zny pointers to info.

"Of course he was not flawless, he made mistakes": Tariq Ali on BBC Newsnight when presented with the catalogue of Castros human rights abuses on the occasion of Castros death. So can make allowances for Cuban dictators but Tariq Ali here makes no similar allowances for Churchill. Very telling indeed

"Of course he is not flawless, he made a huge number of mistakes" - Tariq Ali after being presented with a catalogue of Castros human rights abuses on BBC Newsnight when Castro died. So still defends Castro with statements like that but obviously makes no similar allowances for Churchill. Ok

Churchill made some mistakes but he was mostly right. It's a shame that you defend the actions of young hooligans who have only one motivation -- anti-western sentiment. You want to weaponize them even more? What kind of historian and human being you are? You have the same urge to demean Great Britain as they but you're doing it in your seemingly "intelligent" way.

Nonsense! Winston Churchill is a prophet of Jesus Christ!

Take the action for sfty of religions truth education The preachers cannot describes more than the books or less .they will described all the explanation according the Holy books .

Is man seems to have made is living being anti British with communism diven by a massive chip on his shoulder it's my opinion.

Thought this would be very interesting to watch, but saw this was sponsored by Hillsdale, the Fox News of You Tube. People hated Roosevelt also. Politicians have to be cunning and duplicitous. And they are human, with distasteful character flaws like most of us. Whether you like it or not, he helped save Democracy. If Tariq Ali wants to be heard, stay the f off of Hillsdale.

AHAHA this guy praises Lenin but talks bad about Churchill. It was Lenin that created the death camps. It was Lenin that killed the Kulaks. It was Lenin that stole property from Kulak population. And created the policies that Stalin would have. It was Lenin that committed mass murder.

Churchill was a man of his era. He was out of step with post-WW2 Britain and the devolution of the British Empire. He was a man with all of the failings of men. That said his intuition (if you can call it that) about Hitler was spot on. Britain would have been in a better position to defend itself if it had re-armed post-1930. Or, at the very least began developing newer weapons and more modern naval vessels. Regarding the Spanish civil war, there was no third option. One was either for the Fascists or for the Communists. Both were equally evil in their own way- I am speaking in retrospectively knowing what happened to Fascism in WW2. Anyone with an ounce of common sense could see that the rule of Lenin and Stalin in Russia was inhumane and evil. Hitler's and Mussolini's rule was proven to be equally evil.

The first few minutes of the preamble were enough to kill any slight interest I might have had in this drivel. "I wasn't too keen to write a book on Winston Churchill," and so on. So why even bother ? Anyway just as with Hitler for example, mythology has long ago occluded reality and it was all a very long time ago and the last of the generation to whom he even mattered are all but dead now.

The far left and far right hate Churchill for completely different reasons lol. Regardless, everyone should be aware that his legacy is used by the regime to justify... how to put it... the current state of Britain.

Churchill was a globalist tool.

Many voted for brexit to try and bring community back , as a reaction against neoliberal globalism.

Brilliant

Tariq Ali has always been an anti British commentator. It is no wonder he tries to down our greatest heroes.

so it goes with sacred cows...

I know about the hatred of racism and that Churchill was racist but be honest who are more racist than Asians? The caste system is in itself is racist.

What I don’t get is why the U.S. media industry enthusiastically cooperates in the production of the Churchill Personality Cult.

90% as evil as Hitler.

Ali is correct to point out that a Churchill myth is useless if you want to understand his life and times. However, he seems to have wrote this with a pre-determined verdict. He manages to ignore that in Churchill's memoirs, he recognised the age of empires was over, and the times of whites ruling over those of other colours had finished. Also, a right wing politician doesn't like lefties-what the hell does Ali expect?

What a load of old rubbish. The reason rents are so high is because lefties like you flooded the country with millions of cheap workers but didn't build enough housing for them. The Law of Supply and Demand.

The history of WW I and II, and much more - that is: everything- that came before needs to be written, claimed, proclaimed from a Global Majority perspective , so as to irrefutably and once and for all unmask the myths which we to this day are told as history.

It is landlords that need to be abolished. All rented residential property should be forfeit to the state who can then set social rents or no rent as appropriate for the tenants. Strict limits on short term and holiday lets numbers to preserve what's left of the stock in areas under heavy pressure.

Of course you wanted to write a book on Winston Churchill- of course you did.

Worked well in Germany didn't it? 😂 caused further shortages and forced people to relocate outside the cities to more affordable areas which resulted in them wasting THEIR time travelling into the cities for work. Do some research before chatting shit on KZbin.

Look what's happening with Scotland's housing situation ATM...rent controls are contributing to this

Sadly we have many politicians who are also landowners and landlords

Freedom of movement is by far the most important thing.

America is not a leader, it's a kidnapper.

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I am looking to rent a house for a period of a year and I'm horrified at the prices of rents. They must take a huge chunk of peoples income. And I'm a landlord !

Rent control does not work. The fact that this is still debated is brain dead levels of ridiculous.

Pretty sure this is easily refuted through looking at Argentina’s recent abolition of rent control. Durrr durrrrr

Sounds great but we didn't get to hear what he has to say about the inevitable shortage of rented housing that results.

The way everything is rising yet wages are almost stagnant really makes you think it might just be worth trying to kiss a moving train front on

This would also cause panic selling for those with multiple rental properties. Causing a house price crash! Good for young/first buyers, bad for middle class home owners!

Competition is the best way to keep rents down but they've destroyed that also because they deliberately dont build enough.

It's a transfer if wealth, they want a particular class of people owning and they don't want that put at risk. The business model around the world (you must've noticed) has moved towards consistent monthly or yearly payments, the rental market is the same, those billions that 'come in' each year are perfect for debt generation, you can offset so much debt if you can guarantee that there's X amount of people paying X amount of rent each year

Only landlords will dislike this video (or Tories lol)

Typical delusional left-wing view that has no basic of fact baked into it, just another hate on the wealthy message. There is a fundamental difference between "the private sector housing" and "social housing", the fact that government agencies (aka councils) simply offload their social housing responsibility to the private sector says everything about how our councils operate, and nothing to do with their inability to offer effective social housing policies. Have you not noticed how quickly councils are to collect council tax from those same people that are forced into the private rental market because of insufficient social housing provision. Is it not odd, that council owned buildings and land are continuously sold off to the private sector, instead of re-purposing and building social housing...

Tell me countries that really do that. Saying it is allowed does not mean other countries are doing it. Rent control is bs. Exponational taxes to owners of multiple houses is the right thing

This is crap. Rent controls cause shortages. We know this from so many countless examples. Solution is to build more. This is crap. Edinburgh rent controls haven't worked. Nonsense from a barrister.

[citation needed] on pretty much everything in the first ten seconds

It doesn’t go to landlords though. Many landlords are only getting 2% yield in London. Most of the rent goes to the banks, astronomical service charges, maintenance, appliances, agents fees. But landlords are given the bad rep. There are bad landlords out there but a lot are good people and maybe trying to sell and they can’t due to EWS1 fire safety after grenfell, astronomical service charges putting buyers off. Plus tenants damaging places, causing mould, not paying rents, insurance,solicitor fees etc. There is a much larger picture to this and landlords are paired as greedy. Look at the banks who charge high interest which pushes rents and management companies who continually increased their fees by 10% or more through covid yet rents went down. Landlords won’t sell for less than they paid so better to keep getting the 2%, take the hate, and be painted as greedy cats. People need to open their eyes and start looking and pointing the finger elsewhere.

The solution to high rent, isn't rent controls but increasing the availability of housing and maintaining a control of the demand. The biggest single factor with high rents over the last two decades, has been the high levels of uncontrolled immigration. If private landlords are not allowed to raise rents, then they will stop improving and maintaining their properties. This will have a detrimental effect on the quality of rantal housing and therefore the tenants accommodation. Left wing solutions cause more problems than they solve. Not only that but many ledt wing solutions counteract other left wing policies.

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