The truth about Winston Churchill: Weekend Edition

[Bloomberg]( [The Rest of Us Always Knew Churchill Was a Villain]( – Shashi Tharoor The recent [flap]( over Winston Churchill — with Labour politician John McDonnell calling Britain’s most revered prime minister a “villain” and prompting a rebuke from the latter’s grandson — will astonish many Indians. That’s not because the label itself is a misnomer, but because McDonnell was exercised by the death of one Welsh miner in 1910. In fact, Churchill has the blood of millions on his hands whom the British prefer to forget. “History,” Churchill himself said, “will judge me kindly, because I intend to write it myself.” He did, penning a multi-volume history of World War II, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his self-serving fictions. As the Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies remarked of the man many Britons credit with winning the war, "His real tyrant is the glittering phrase, so attractive to his mind that awkward facts have to give way.” Awkward facts, alas, there are aplenty. Read the [whole thing](. [Trump’s Presidency Is Getting Weaker]( – Jonathan Bernstein [Rod Rosenstein Has Some Serious Explaining to Do]( – Eli Lake [Jaguar Land Rover Is Headed for a Cash Crash]( – Anjani Trivedi [India’s Sleepwalking to Trouble on Builder Debt]( – Andy Mukherjee [In Trump’s World, He Never Loses]( – Timothy L. O’Brien [Venezuela Isn’t Just a Failed State. It’s a Failure of the Left.]( – Tyler Cowen [U.S. Is a Rich Country With Symptoms of a Developing Nation]( – Noah Smith [Chinese Tourists Won’t Be Weapons Much Longer]( – Adam Minter [Trump Should Stop Before He Loses Germany]( – Leonid Bershidsky Break Out the Popcorn Hollywood’s biggest night is Sunday: It’s the 91st Academy Awards. Watch the stars [arrive in style (or not)]( starting at 6:30 p.m. EST on ABC and streaming on [Twitter](. And watch the [ceremony]( beginning at 8 p.m. EST. This is the Weekend Edition of Bloomberg Opinion Today, a roundup of the 10 most popular stories Bloomberg Opinion published this week, based on web readership, with some other stuff thrown in. [FOLLOW US [Facebook Share]]( [Twitter Share]( SEND TO A FRIEND [Share with a friend] You received this message because you are subscribed to Bloomberg's Bloomberg Opinion Today newsletter. [Unsubscribe]( | [Bloomberg.com]( | [Contact Us]( Bloomberg L.P. 731 Lexington, New York, NY, 10022