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ByEnoch Powell
It’s official – Keir Starmer’s “island of strangers” speech has backfired
Exclusive: the first survey before and after the immigration speech reveals a drop in Labour support.
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From the archive: Enoch and after
April 1968: The aftermath of Enoch Powell’s “Rivers of Blood” speech.
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Labour’s immigration rhetoric has outflanked the Tories
Kemi Badenoch has no response – and her MPs are restless.
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What is Nigel Farage thinking now?
Enoch Powell is his political hero. But Farage will never be his heir.
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Britain’s new Powellites
With the Conservative Party intellectually exhausted, a very-online vanguard is trying to refresh right-wing thought – but how much of…
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The provocations of Enoch Powell
Fifty years after it shunned him, the Conservative Party has embraced Powell’s Eurosceptic and nationalist views.
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Will post-Brexit Britain overcome or fall further upon Enoch Powell’s troubling legacy?
It is 50 years since his notorious “rivers of blood” speech. Yet, in the intervening decades, Powell’s ideas have entered…
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The British public proved Enoch Powell wrong – but that is a low bar to jump
I grew up confident enough to joke at Enoch Powell. But the next generation expects more.
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The problem with airing Enoch Powell’s speech isn’t that it was racist – it’s that it was wrong
British broadcasters are almost constitutionally incapable of covering unequivocal fact well.
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Exposing Enoch Powell’s racist lies in a second, almost forgotten speech
This month marks the 50th anniversary of that speech. But the one that followed in the autumn was perhaps more important.
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Why is the BBC boasting about running Enoch Powell’s “Rivers of Blood” speech in full?
Racism revisited.
ByEnoch Powell’s post-colonial empire state of mind
Camilla Schofield's Enoch Powell and the Making of Post-Colonial Britain argues that Powell was a product of Britain's post-colonial history…
ByEnoch was wrong: the attempted rehabilitation of a racist
For a man so clever, he brought a lot of misery to a lot of people's lives.
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Enoch Powell, 1959
Enoch Powell, speech on the Hola Camp in Kenya, House of Commons, July 1959.
ByEchoes of Enoch Powell
Rivers of Blood, multiculturalism and the BBC – Martin O’Neill on a film that’s part of the BBC’s Wh
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