Glavin: There'll always be an England? Amid political chaos, maybe not

“If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground.”
That was the clinching rallying cry of a thundering oration Winston Churchill let fly at his wavering and whimpering cabinet on May 28, 1940. He’d been Britain’s wartime prime minister for only 18 days. On the French coast, at Dunkirk, a vast fleet of English boats of every description was in the midst of an ignominious evacuation of mo