On July 7, 2005, the murderous mayhem that Blair?s war has sown in Iraq came home to London in a devastating series of suicide bombings. Two weeks later, with apparent impunity, security forces shot dead a young Brazilian electrician on his way to work. Rough Music is Tariq Ali?s riveting response to these events.He lays bare the vengeful platitudes of Blair?s war on civil liberties, mounts a scorching attack on the cozy falsehoods of the government?s ?consensus? on what the threat amounts to and how to respond, and denounces the corruption of the political-media bubble which allows it to go unchallenged. Finally, invoking the perseverance and integrity of the great dissenters of the past, he calls for political resistance, within parliament and without.