The Cult of Churchill | Tariq Ali & Priyamvada Gopal
The Verso Podcast
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Wilfred Blunt and the British Imperial Project
The book looks at quite different kinds of figures who didn't actually participate in the great imperial story. My favorite figure from the 19th century is the aristocrat and man of leisure,. Wilfred Blunt, who starts out as a Tory. And he's somebody who becomes radicalized by witnessing the 1882 revolution in Egypt.
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