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Inside the London Café Accused of Glorifying ‘Racist’ Winston Churchill


A love-him-or-loathe-him debate that’s divided Britain for more than 100 years burst back to life in a trendy North London café.

The bemused middle-class lunch crowd at Blighty was left spluttering into their flat whites when a small cadre of protesters burst into the dining room and staged an awkward, theatrical protest against the establishment’s décor.

Students from the School of Oriental and African Studies—part of the University of London—barged into the dining room at around 12:30 p.m. two Saturdays ago and recited some of Churchill’s quotes, including: “I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.”

They said Churchill was a racist and a war criminal.

Read entire article at The Daily Beast