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In this special crossover edition of Secrets of Statecraft and Uncommon Knowledge, I interview historian Andrew Roberts, Baron of Belgravia. Roberts explains why great individuals still shape history—and why Winston Churchill remains history’s ultimate example. Roberts also confronts attacks on Churchill’s record, explains Britain’s decision to fight Hitler in 1940, and discusses tyranny, Brexit, socialism, immigration, Donald Trump, and Britain’s future. Roberts also despairs of the decline of literacy and historical memory, and reveals both the world leaders he admires today and the source of his own podcast's title, derived from Winston Churchill’s enduring advice: “Study history, for therein lie all the secrets of statecraft.”
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