“... from Alfred Sherman to Denis Thatcher: the Institute of Economic Affairs competing the while with Enoch Powell for the role of the enduring spiritual godfather whose time had come.Hugo Young, 5 December 1991Phoned by the Guardian in a round-up of what people think of the departure of Mrs T. I say that I’m hopeless at this kind of thing and am simply ... ”
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I do a deal right away
Ben Jackson: Yuppie Traders, 16 March 2023
Are We Rich Yet? The Rise of Mass Investment Culture in Contemporary Britain
by Amy Edwards.
California, 364 pp., £25, June 2022,978 0 520 38546 7 Show More
by Amy Edwards.
California, 364 pp., £25, June 2022,
“... structural features of modern capitalism. The ideological architects of privatisation – such as Enoch Powell, financial secretary to the Treasury in the late 1950s, and the Tory cabinet minister Keith Joseph, Thatcher’s first secretary of state for industry – envisaged a form of capitalism in which individuals actively traded on the stock ... ”
Famous Four
R.W. Johnson, 30 November 1995
SDP: The Birth, Life and Death of the Social Democratic Party
by Ivor Crewe and Anthony King.
Oxford, 611 pp., £25, November 1995,0 19 828050 5 Show More
by Ivor Crewe and Anthony King.
Oxford, 611 pp., £25, November 1995,
“... there is an extraordinary amount about Benn but too little on the far more fundamental role Enoch Powell played in undermining the old class-based bipartite order. Between 1968 and 1974 Powell achieved the dubious distinction of making the issues of race and immigration so central that elections turned on ... ”
Will the INF Treaty do any good?
Philip Towle, 21 January 1988
“... unstable arms-race which can only end in disaster. On the right, commentators such as Lord Carver, Enoch Powell and Robert McNamara have argued that deterrence means that nuclear weapons would never be used even if war broke out. Thus the threat to unleash them is increasingly incredible. As Mr Powell put it, ‘the ... ”
God’s Endurance
Peter Clarke, 30 November 1995
“... in 1867? ‘Two of them might have weakened under Derby’s persuasion, but Cranborne, rather like Enoch Powell in the Thorneycroft-Powell-Birch resignations of 1958, implacably drove them on.’ On Gladstone’s prime ministerial management of his cabinet: ‘While it is difficult to believe that he emulated Attlee’s ... ”
‘I was a more man’
Keith Kyle, 12 October 1989
Keith Joseph: A Single Mind
by Morrison Halcrow.
Macmillan, 205 pp., £14.95, September 1989,0 333 49016 9 Show More
by Morrison Halcrow.
Macmillan, 205 pp., £14.95, September 1989,
“... name had been on every lip. He was just about to deliver a major speech at Birmingham, where Enoch Powell had cut himself off from any possibility of leadership seven years before. The circumstances ensured maximum media coverage. Most people found the speech very strange indeed. The major part – attacking the ‘permissive society’, commending ... ”
Noddy is on page 248
Jay Griffiths: On the streets, 10 June 1999
The Penguin Book of 20th-Century Protest
edited by Brian MacArthur.
Penguin, 440 pp., £20, October 1998,0 670 87052 8 Show More
edited by Brian MacArthur.
Penguin, 440 pp., £20, October 1998,
DIY Culture: Party and Protest in Nineties Britain
edited by George McKay.
Verso, 310 pp., £11, July 1998,1 85984 260 7 Show More
edited by George McKay.
Verso, 310 pp., £11, July 1998,
“... style, not by the peasants who felt her fist in their faces. There are protests by Ronald Reagan, Enoch Powell and Adolf Hitler. There are two pieces about the Titanic, two about the Lusitania and two on the abdication of Edward VIII. Considering what MacArthur omits, repetitions are irritating. (There is also a repeated typo. You may wonder who Sylvia ... ”
Opera Mundi
Michael Neve, 1 December 1983
Frank Johnson’s Election Year
by Frank Johnson.
Robson, 192 pp., £6.95, October 1983,0 86051 254 1 Show More
by Frank Johnson.
Robson, 192 pp., £6.95, October 1983,
The Original Michael Frayn
by Michael Frayn.
Salamander, 203 pp., £8.50, October 1983,0 907540 32 5 Show More
by Michael Frayn.
Salamander, 203 pp., £8.50, October 1983,
“... doesn’t. He is wrongly uninterested in any Wilsonian legacy, silly about Dennis Skinner, bad on Enoch Powell and crass about gays and feminists. There is no necessary connection between being a political commentator and having no capacity for praise. Mr Johnson’s lack of ostentation is fine, but sometimes the large thing, well said, is the right ... ”
Mauve Monkeys
William Fiennes, 18 September 1997
Wilde’s Last Stand: Decadence, Conspiracy and the First World War
by Philip Hoare.
Duckworth, 250 pp., £16.95, July 1997,0 7156 2737 6 Show More
by Philip Hoare.
Duckworth, 250 pp., £16.95, July 1997,
“... this dark genius has the leanness and meticulous parting of T.S. Eliot, the milky eyes of Enoch Powell, and a monocle that is his signature affectation; the lens of his probity. In March 1916, he became Independent MP for East Hertfordshire, touting protofascist policies: Jewish ghettos and yellow stars; anti-German and anti-alien ... ”
Wharton the Wise
D.A.N. Jones, 4 April 1985
The Missing Will
by Michael Wharton.
Hogarth, 216 pp., £10.95, November 1984,0 7011 2666 3 Show More
by Michael Wharton.
Hogarth, 216 pp., £10.95, November 1984,
“... Macmillan for being soft on Russia: the only politician he has praised is his old favourite, Powell.) The column has a repertory company of fantasy figures – most of them mean, stupid and well-to-do – and when he solemnly reports their fatuous statements ‘Peter Simple’ sometimes sounds as if he were parodying his ... ”
Peter Riddell on the progress of a Parliamentary reform
Peter Riddell, 21 November 1985
The New Select Committees: A Study of the 1979 Reforms
edited by Gavin Drewry.
Oxford, 410 pp., £25, September 1985,9780198227854 Show More
edited by Gavin Drewry.
Oxford, 410 pp., £25, September 1985,
Commons Select Committees: Catalysts for Progress?
edited by Dermot Englefield.
Longman, 288 pp., £15, May 1984,0 582 90260 6 Show More
edited by Dermot Englefield.
Longman, 288 pp., £15, May 1984,
British Government and the Constitution: Text, Cases and Materials
by Colin Turpin.
Weidenfeld, 476 pp., £25, September 1985,0 297 78651 2 Show More
by Colin Turpin.
Weidenfeld, 476 pp., £25, September 1985,
Parliament in the 1980s
edited by Philip Norton.
Blackwell, 208 pp., £19.50, July 1985,0 631 14056 5 Show More
edited by Philip Norton.
Blackwell, 208 pp., £19.50, July 1985,
“... a disservice by exaggerating their likely role. This enabled traditionalists like Michael Foot and Enoch Powell to warn that expanding the role of the committees might distract attention from the proper Parliamentary forum, the floor of the House. On their view, this would damage the position of individual members and of Parliament itself. Moreover, as ... ”
The Irresistible Itch
Colin Kidd: Vandals in Bow Ties, 3 December 2009
Personal Responsibility: Why It Matters
by Alexander Brown.
Continuum, 214 pp., £12.99, September 2009,978 1 84706 399 1 Show More
by Alexander Brown.
Continuum, 214 pp., £12.99, September 2009,
“... of self-policing readily compatible with a sovereign Parliament, or so it seemed. Nevertheless, Enoch Powell, a stickler for parliamentary procedure, refused to comply with the register unless legally compelled to do so by an Act of Parliament. Not that he had anything to hide. He objected to the lax indulgence of MPs’ expenses claims, and refused to ... ”
Help Yourself
R.W. Johnson: The other crooked Reggie, 21 April 2005
Reggie: The Life of Reginald Maudling
by Lewis Baston.
Sutton, 604 pp., £25, October 2004,0 7509 2924 3 Show More
by Lewis Baston.
Sutton, 604 pp., £25, October 2004,
“... morality tale. The movement from the young Maudling, working genially alongside Iain Macleod and Enoch Powell in the late 1940s – Rab Butler’s three brilliant young men, all potential prime ministers – to the later figure, greedy, corrupt, drinking himself to death, his reputation in ruins, has an almost tragic cadence. (Since it is a tale in ... ”
Nine White Men Armed with Iron Bars
Andy Beckett: Postwar Immigrant Experience, 2 November 2017
Lovers and Strangers: An Immigrant History of Postwar Britain
by Clair Wills.
Allen Lane, 442 pp., £25, August 2017,978 1 84614 716 6 Show More
by Clair Wills.
Allen Lane, 442 pp., £25, August 2017,
“... relation to race’ as well. He didn’t consider it a coincidence that the West Midlands produced Enoch Powell. Four years after Hall’s house-hunting expedition, the Conservative MP for Wolverhampton South West made his ‘rivers of blood’ speech. Clair Wills doesn’t write about it until almost the end of Lovers and Strangers: An Immigrant History ... ”
‘I’m not signing’
Mike Jay: Franco Basaglia, 8 September 2016
“... In Britain
, the man who closed the asylums was Enoch Powell. ‘There they stand,’ he announced to two thousand delegates at the 1961 annual conference of the National Association for Mental Health (now known as Mind), ‘isolated, majestic, imperious … the asylums which our forefathers built with such immense solidity to express the notions of their day ... ”
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