Winston Churchill’s urinal shows Britain’s hang-up with heritage
A planned Labour reform goes down the drain
Winston Churchill, unusually, underestimated himself. He stated that he had nothing to offer Britain but “blood, toil, tears and sweat”. A spat over a urinal that stands in the Treasury—and that may have been used by the great man himself—shows that, for Britons, other Churchillian fluids are also of abiding interest.
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This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Wee will fight them”
Britain August 17th 2024
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