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“... by the thousand. In fact, Sanghera was born and raised in Wolverhampton, a landscape polluted by Enoch Powell and a few subsequent racists, which might have prepared him for all that online sewage. But it shook him, and why should he have to be prepared for such a reception? (He notes that his friend William Dalrymple, whose books about the Raj and ...”

“... the forty-year policy of avoiding politics and controversy, inviting on right-wing figures like Enoch Powell and Lord Hailsham and co-opting left-wing outliers like Tony Benn, Eric Hobsbawm, Arthur Scargill, John Pilger and Stuart Hall. She set about coaxing – and sometimes wrestling – as much emotion and revelation from her castaways as she ...”

“... purged residual rancour towards Bevan’s health service in the Conservative Party’. Enoch Powell is a more complex figure in NHS history. He became minister in July 1960 and, like Macleod, lasted three years. Webster too readily supports the view that Powell was the butcher of the Welfare State. It is ...”

“... King. Another facet of ‘Fascism’ is the organisation of race prejudice. In April 1968, Enoch Powell made his name: a body of deluded meat-porters and dock-workers marched to Westminster, supporting Powell’s campaign against black immigrants. In the same month, by neat coincidence, Martin Luther King was ...”

“... Transport Board recruited Barbadians to drive our buses and to run the Underground system. It was Enoch Powell who was Minister for Health when doctors and nurses from the Commonwealth were being recruited to supply the services we required. The jobs were filled, more immigrants arrived and problems arose. The problems had two different causes, both ...”

“... a coherent syndrome call it populist authoritarianism, and date its rise from the emergence of Enoch Powell as a national hero after his ‘river of blood’ speech in 1968. I wonder whether it is all as simple as that. The question is not whether there is a logical connection between these attitudes, libertarian in economic and repressive in ...”

“... The Shavians discuss the arrival, rationally – except for the priest, Anoku (a parody of Enoch Powell), and the intellectual idiot, Mensa (a parody of MENSA, our national club for IQ devotees). At the Shavi council meeting, Mensa, the great bungler, got up again in his jerky way. The trouble with Mensa was that he was fond of doing his thinking ...”

“... difficulty is due to the fact that in their heart of hearts they do want a hard border and, like Enoch Powell, would prefer it if Northern Ireland was governed just like Sussex, or was it Gloucestershire? Roger Scruton expressly links Britain’s EU membership with the setting up of the Scottish Parliament and the establishment of an independent supreme ...”

“... pollution caused by an ICI factory, in which he received no help at all from the health minister, Enoch Powell, and another wholly admirable campaign to secure a posthumous pardon for Timothy Evans, hanged for a crime he didn’t commit. This time there was an unlikely political hero in the form of the elderly Lord Chuter Ede. As home secretary in the ...”

“... the House of Commons gallery after shouting ‘this House stinks of racism’ during a speech by Enoch Powell. He was frequently arrested, and on one occasion sent to prison for a month. Tilbury writes of Cardew’s ‘unfinished life’, and it is of course possible that he might have dusted himself down and set off in a new direction after the ...”

“... population, there were repeated calls for the restriction of immigration, most notoriously from Enoch Powell. The Conservative Party proved more willing to meet these demands than Labour, and consequently became distrusted by ethnic minorities, for whom racism was an everyday experience. In Sobolewska and Ford’s analysis, the liberalism of ethnic ...”

“... Penelope Fitzgerald’s biography of the Knox brothers, to take a random example. The absence of Enoch Powell, for whom Housman was ‘the most powerful single intellectual influence in my life’, is especially curious. A classicist whose gifts were of the order of Housman’s, Powell attended his lectures as an ...”

“... for the construction of the later Benn are visible enough. One in particular stands out. When Enoch Powell made his infamous ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech before the 1970 General Election, Benn responded with a speech condemning Edward Heath’s silence on the issue (he was not, in fact, silent, and later sacked ...”

“... the subject of ‘race relations’ long after Windrush. Many former imperialists, such as Enoch Powell, had never stopped thinking in the categories mandated by their previously unchallenged dominance. In 1968, Powell warned that immigration from Britain’s former colonies would lead to a dire situation in ...”

“... of presenting the Conservative agenda, and defining its ideal audience. In Fawcett’s taxonomy, Enoch Powell is a divisive figure, which of course he was, in terms of British social relations. But, as Andrew Gamble showed nearly fifty years ago in his classic account, The Conservative Nation, Powell offered members ...”