From 1937... And, yet, Churchill considers Trotsky "great", in some sense at least... When the usurper and tyrant is reduced to literary controversy, when the Communist instead of bombs produces effusions for the capitalist Press, when the refugee War Lord fights his battles over again, and the discharged executioner becomes chatty and garrulous at his fireside, we may rejoice in the signs that better days are come....
It would have been delicious to be treated to Churchill's account of Boris Johnson.
Churchill wrote some damned good snark.