Is the tide in the so-called culture wars beginning to turn? Recent evidence suggests that at least a mainstream effort to push back against activism by a vocal minority is working. Oriel College, Oxford is not going to remove its Rhodes statue. On Thursday, Churchill College, Cambridge announced the disbanding of its ‘Churchill, Race and Empire Working Group’, which was established in the wake of the Black Lives Matters protests last year. The news holds particular resonance for us as the authors of a Policy Exchange paper which was published after an event at the college on 11 February this year.
The event, entitled ‘The Racial Consequences of Mr Churchill’, took the form of a panel discussion but, as our paper documented, it was no ordinary event. Instead of featuring qualified historians with varied points of view, it brought together four individuals known less for their expertise on Churchill than for their anti-Churchill sentiment.
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