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The Cult of Churchill | Tariq Ali & Priyamvada Gopal

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The Rise and Fall of Churchill

British history is 'an offshore island attached by a wire to the United States' It does what the US wants whether it's war, economic policy or sanctioning countries. And when the lack of this real independence which it used to have for some time, even after it stopped being an empire, they need people like Churchill. I mean if you look for instance at what happened in Kenya, a real appalling event in imperial history. So we fight on Priya's book as well as mine. They serve a need because they provide an alternative.

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