We know Winston Churchill as a brilliant political and statesman, a fighter against Nazism, and finally, a Nobel Prize laureate in literature. In a 2002 BBC poll, the British voted him the greatest Briton in history.

However, Churchill was, first and foremost, a man of his time, and therefore a passionate defender of the British Empire and the imperial idea. It is this side of his political activity, without which Churchill's portrait would be incomplete, that the famous British-Pakistani writer, historian, publicist, and public figure Tariq Ali addresses.