The life and crimes of the last, great Imperialist
Tariq Ali has written more than two-dozen books on world history and politics—the most recent of which are The Dilemmas of Lenin, The Obama Syndrome and The Extreme Centre—as well as the novels of his Islam Quintet and scripts for the stage and screen. He is a long-standing member of the editorial committee of New Left Review and lives in London.
Included in The Independent's Books of the month for May 2022 Independent
In Ali's telling, which draws on more honest existing historical scholarship than most popular biographies of Churchill, the two-times prime minister emerges not so much as deeply racist - some of his contemporaries remarked on it in shock - as profoundly authoritarian, with a soft spot for fascist strongmen, and a hostility to working-class assertion. Priyamvada Gopal Prospect
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