The last taboo: Churchill questioned as UK's nervous breakdown deepens

Britain's crisis of introspection took a bizarre turn on the eve of the latest parliamentary vote about Brexit: wartime hero Winston Churchill was placed in the dock of public discourse for his role in tackling a miners' strike more than 100 years ago.The 2016 Brexit referendum showed a United Kingdom divided about much more than the European Union, and has fuelled soul-searching about everything from secession and immigration to capitalism, empire and modern Britishness.Such musings amid the po