I’m fed up with reading in the papers about people who want to berate Churchill’s legacy and play down his role in defeating the forces of Nazism.
You only have to look at the current bunch of ratbags infesting Downing Street to realise how much better a leader Churchill was than any of his predecessors. For some reason, we British don’t like to name our airports after real leaders. Instead, we have an irrelevant little glass shed up near Doncaster named after that thief Robin Hood, and Liverpool Airport named after dreary dreamer John Lennon. Lennon might have imagined a world free from tyranny, but Churchill created the legacy to achieve it.
My only question is which airport would be more appropriate - Stansted or Heathrow?
Norman Foster’s delightfully simple design for Stansted might be an easy gateway for Szczecin, from where Goerring first coined the term ‘Iron Curtain’; Gdansk, from where Lech Wałęsa first started the Solidarity movement to defeat Communism; and Berlin, where Roger Waters finally brought down The Wall in July 1990, but the place has long sinced been cheapened by Irish cheapskates Ryanair.
Surely Winston would find Heathrow’s Terminal 5, which now shares so many more connections with the USA, not to mention the rest of the world, a far more enjoyable place from which to catch flights, even if it was designed by Labour Luvvie Richard Rogers?