It is, as Sanghera reveals, fundamental to understanding Britain. The British Empire ran for centuries and covered vast swathes of the world. And yet empire is a subject weirdly hidden from view. In prose that is, at once, both clear-eyed and full of acerbic wit, Sanghera shows how our past is everywhere: from how we live to how we think, from the foundation of the NHS to the nature of our racism, from our distrust of intellectuals in public life to the exceptionalism that imbued the campaign for Brexit and the government's early response to the COVID crisis. In his brilliantly illuminating new book Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consider to be modern Britain is actually rooted in our imperial past. Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2021.
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