More echoes of appeasement

To conclude our round-up, here are a Boston Globe opinion piece from last May about Bush's attempt to smear Obama as an "appeaser", and a very brief overview from the Churchill Archives Centre at Cambridge University.

Recycling rhetoric

Just to indicate how "contemporary" the 1940s still are, even at the level of political rhetoric, there's an interesting piece in the Times Higher Education of 30 July 2004 which touches on the attempts of a Labour Prime Minister, Tony Blair, to clothe himself in Churchillian rhetoric, and of his Conservative predecessor, John Major, to draw on the language of George Orwell.

And of course, it's not only politicians who invoke the powerful phrases of the past: