Re-Writing History

Even though he is portraying Winston Churchill, Mel Smith is not allowed to smoke a cigar on stage. I could rant on about this for hours, but instead I will direct you to an eloquent piece on the subject here.

But it does lead me to wonder where this all ends. Perhaps, if Churchill cannot be depicted smoking on stage, he shouldn't be depicted smoking anywhere. Perhaps we should rewrite history to change the hard smoking, hard drinking, manic depressive Churchill into a sober, non-smoking, happy go lucky vegan. He was also overweight, wasn't he? And that is not allowed anymore. So join me, brothers and sisters, let us rewrite history and change the Greatest Briton into a figure we do not recognise anymore. Anyone with decent IT skills - please get started on changing the way Churchill is depicted in all those photos. Let is change history and make it politically correct!*

Seem to remember Stalin liked re-writing history to match his own very limited version of history as well.

*Anyone who cannot see the irony in this needs to move on and read a different blog.