Sorry Churchill, but you’ve failed.

According to the Times, if one of Winston Churchill’s speeches were submitted into an A-Level exam, they would fail.

They are some of the most memorable and stirring words of the 20th century, but Churchill’s speech exhorting the British to “fight on the beaches” would fail if submitted as a school essay and subjected to a proposed computerised marking system.

The wartime leader had a style that was too repetitive, according to the computer being tested for the online marking of school qualifications. It rated Churchill as below average in the equivalent of an A level English exam.

Extract from Times Online article

This just demonstrates how the standards of education and ultimately the intelligence of the population has increased massively over the last 60 or 70 years.

So that's why he's always frowning!