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The Cult of Churchill | Tariq Ali & Priyamvada Gopal

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The Role of Churchill in the British Empire

The links between the forms of discipline and the kind of modes of governance in colonies and also at what is sometimes known as the home front. Very much something that Churchill is very much aware of, he's seeing himself as a warrior both against colonial dissidents and against dissidents at home. And to be fair to him, he did not make any secret of these beliefs. They were openly expressed. It's those who were trying to sort of cover him up and brush all the warts out of his portraits, who were covering him up.

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