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    Aug 02, 2022 5 minutes
    MICHAEL McMENAMIN’S

    125 Years Ago Summer 1897 • Age 22 “Barbarous Squalor”

    In India, Churchill was bored until the late summer. Nothing much had changed since April, when he wrote his mother about “the barbarous squalor of this country….The only valuable knowledge I take away from India (soldiering apart) could have been gathered equally well in Cumberland Place.”

    His frustration was compounded by the apparent failure of Sir Bindon Blood to appoint him to his staff on the Malakand Field Force, as he had promised. But then a message arrived from Blood: “I had to fill my personal staff when I started and I have not been able to manage a billet for you as yet. I should advise your coming to me as a press correspondent and when you are here I shall put you on the strength

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