ABSTRACT
Many sacred icons of British society are being smashed in the white heat of the Thatcherite and post-Thatcherite late-bourgeois revolution, from the monarchy, sliding towards a state of apparently terminal crisis, to the red buses which have begun to disappear from London’s streets in the process of privatization. Until recently, however, no-one has dared to lay a hand on the most sacred icon of all, the figure of Winston Churchill, the ‘saviour of his country’, as he was described in A.J.P.Taylor’s standard English History 1914-45.
