Tariq Ali

Tariq Ali has written 25 books on history & politics and seven novels. Winston Churchill: His Times, His  Crimes is his latest. Born in Lahore in 1943, he was educated at Oxford University, where he became involved in student politics, particularly with the movement against the war in Vietnam. On graduating, he led the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign. He owned his own independent television production company, Bandung, which produced programmes for Channel 4 in the UK during the 1980s. He is a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio and contributes articles and journalism to magazines and newspapers, including The Guardian and the London Review of Books. He is on the New Left Review board and is also a long-standing member of their editorial committee.