Richard Langworth is a leading authority on Winston Churchill and the founder of the Churchill Centre (now the International Churchill Society). He has authored and edited numerous books on Churchill's life, speeches, and legacy. He contributed pieces to The Weekly Standard on British political figures and Churchillian history.
Anyone reading this knows where he was on September 11, 2001. A diminishing number remember where they were on January 30, 1965—the day we said farewell to Winston Churchill. (He died fifty years ago, January 24, 1965.)
Eighteen months ago Britain’s Nigel Farage was a political curiosity, head of a fringe party, gadfly member of the European Parliament, an ex-commodities broker who never went to college—dismissed as a nutcase by ruling elites in London and Brussels. Today he’s being touted as a future prime…