It was February 18, 1956.

“It was mad of the Tories to bring in commercial television,” Churchill said. “It is no wonder the country is going soft.... It’s the loss of masculinity and virility that’s troubling me. I would like to speak about it in the House, to warn the country.”

(Lord Moran, Winston Churchill, The Struggle for Survival, Heron Books, London, 1966 p. 690)