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The Cult of Churchill | Tariq Ali & Priyamvada Gopal

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The Rise and Fall of the Churchill Myth

The Empire was supported by Labour, officially The Fabians, Bernard Shaw, the webs were all staunch supporters of the civilisation thesis. By and large the imperial story was very successful, I mean, throughout the war cabinet,. In particular, Bevin supported Churchill on everything, including nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki when actually was prime minister So on foreign policy, Labour has nine times out of ten been no different from the Conservatives, and now it's ten out of ten with the star mind before him, Blair. For them, what the United States does is right, NATO has become an essential loyalty question Now for Labour members of Parliament, this is new, it wasn't so open, criticisms

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