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  • Hunt's bold innovation is to bring that "black dog" to furry life as an insistent, insidious and enervating presence, sometimes known as Black Pat and sometimes - taking the name of Churchill's home - as Mr. Chartwell.

    Book World: 'Mr. Chartwell' reviewed by Ron Charles 2011

  • Hunt's bold innovation is to bring that "black dog" to furry life as an insistent, insidious and enervating presence, sometimes known as Black Pat and sometimes - taking the name of Churchill's home - as Mr. Chartwell.

    Book World: 'Mr. Chartwell' reviewed by Ron Charles 2011

  • Richard Loncraine's sterling film focuses on Churchill's time in the wilderness between the two World Wars, when his warnings of Nazi intentions were dismissed as the rantings of a war mongering has-been.

    John Farr: Birthday Tribute: Albert Finney's Finest John Farr 2011

  • In today's politically correct world—and it must be admitted that many of Churchill's remarks about Indians were deeply politically incorrect—the hunger for victory is perhaps not given the precedence over humanitarianism that it was given in the 1940s.

    Starved for Evidence Andrew Roberts 2011

  • There was a mountain state governor who eloquently called on the nation to undo "Churchill's blunder" of allowing the West to become dependent on Middle Eastern oil, joined Arnold Schwarzenegger's Western Climate Initiative, and helped his state make a sharp U-turn from freeway central to one of the nation's most enlightened transit advocates.

    Carl Pope: The Incredible Shrinking GOP Field Carl Pope 2011

  • Notwithstanding solid support from Jim Broadbent, Linus Roache, and Sir Derek Jacobi as Churchill's nemesis Stanley Baldwin, ultimately the film is elevated by the chemistry generated between its two evergreen stars.

    John Farr: Birthday Tribute: Albert Finney's Finest John Farr 2011

  • Last winter, Joseph Lelyveld—reviewing "Churchill's Secret War" in the New York Review of Books—called British responsibility for the Bengal Famine "a horror that deserves to rank with the bombings of Dresden and Nagasaki."

    Starved for Evidence Andrew Roberts 2011

  • Europeans, who don't possess America's military might and who nearly always, in Winston Churchill's words, prefer "jaw, jaw to war, war," also welcomed Obama's early overture to Iran indicating that if Teheran would unclench its fist, then America was ready to extend its hand.

    How is Obama being viewed in Europe? 2009

  • At Winston Churchill's glorious old favourite, La Mamounia – renovated to perfection two years ago – I met a couple from Bath.

    Back to the Middle East: the view from Morocco 2011

  • Notwithstanding solid support from Jim Broadbent, Linus Roache, and Sir Derek Jacobi as Churchill's nemesis Stanley Baldwin, ultimately the film is elevated by the chemistry generated between its two evergreen stars.

    John Farr: Birthday Tribute: Albert Finney's Finest John Farr 2011

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