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Jun 20, 2024 · Fifty years ago, Enoch Powell’s blistering speech about race in Britain ignited a touch paper that fanned the flames around the immigration policies of successive governments. Powell claimed that Britain was building its own funeral pyre, with “homes and neighbourhoods changed beyond recognition” and minorities demanding ...
Jul 7, 2024 · Twenty-five years after his death, and fifty-six years after he delivered the so-called ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech, Enoch Powell still epitomises for many people the archetypal racist demagogue.
Jul 1, 2024 · From Enoch Powell’s racist ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech in 1968 to former prime minister Boris Johnson, who called burka-wearing Muslim women “letterboxes”, Black Lives Matter UK pointed to ...
1 day ago · Camus cites two influential figures in the epilogue of his 2011 book The Great Replacement: British politician Enoch Powell's apocalyptic vision of future race relations—expressed in his 1968 "Rivers of Blood" speech—and French author Jean Raspail's depiction of the collapse of the West from an overwhelming "tidal wave" of Third ...
Jun 18, 2024 · It was in 1968 that Conservative British MP, Enoch Powell gave a speech as a response to the proposed Race Relations Bill which allowed unabated immigration through lax immigration policies. It became infamous as the “Rivers of Blood” speech because he quoted the following lines from Virgil’s Aeneid, “War, fierce war, I see ...
Jul 6, 2024 · Dorey examines the role of Enoch Powell, who in the 1960s became one of the key voices decrying the rise of the social welfare state. Powell was soon superseded by a generation of ‘neo-liberal’ politicians whose social and demographic background represented the changing nature of the Conservative Party.
1 day ago · Most of the Ulster Unionist Party were for 'No' in the referendum, most prominently the former Conservative minister Enoch Powell, who after Benn was the second-most prominent anti-Marketeer in the campaign.
