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...Crick places him more in the mould of the former Tory politician Enoch Powell, whom Farage long admired, with similar prejudices and instincts and the same ability to offer up unsavoury dog whistles....
...So, while inspired by the 2015 documentary of the same name by Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon, Best of Enemies also sketches in backstage scenes that add complexity....
...He was brought up in the backwash of Enoch Powell’s 1968 “Rivers of Blood” speech....
...It was Enoch Powell's seat back in the day. The Tory party lost it to Labour a few elections back. Labour still holds it. It's got a majority of about 2,100....
...But while the drama could take in anything from England’s World Cup win to Enoch Powell to Watergate, all I can glean from my brief on-set visit is that Prince Charles is definitely dating....
...Dr Charles Enoch St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, UK...
...There was a fringe of empire Tories, led by Enoch Powell, who rejected the loss of sovereignty that flowed from British membership, but they were small in number....
...Half a century on, the notorious “rivers of blood” speech of Enoch Powell looks more like rabid paranoia than prescient prophecy....
...he looked back to the volatile politics of Britain in the 1970s that prepared the ground for Thatcherism — industrial strife, Irish Republican terrorism and a renascent far-right surfing the backwash of Enoch...
...The wardens then would have been Enoch Powell and Tony Benn. Who will the wardens be in post-Brexit Britain? WTF has the prime virtue of encouraging the reader to reflect and argue....
...of Enoch Powell and Tony Benn about the EU because he “did not like the look of them”....
...robert.shrimsley@ft.com...
.../ From Robert Cooper...
...Think Sir John Major in the 1990s, Edward Heath in the 1970s, Arthur Balfour, Andrew Bonar Law in the Edwardian era and, perhaps most famously, Robert Peel, whose decision to repeal the protectionist Corn...
...Enoch Powell, the Tory MP and former minister, made English nationalism his own....
...The famous poets and autobiographers of the first world war – Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen – were all officers....
...Doughty old Mr Kapasi had just purchased the SS Robert Coryndon, a ship admired by Churchill and Hemingway, planning to turn it into a hotel. It never happened....
...The growing availability of renminbi-denominated investment products in Hong Kong would play a “critical role” in boosting offshore usage of renminbi, said Enoch Fung, economist at Goldman Sachs....
...could exploit the xenophobic mood in the hard-pressed industrial centres and have some influence on the right wing of the Tory party, where such opinions already had a powerful advocate in the figure of Enoch...
...Alistair Letham, director of property firm Colliers Robert Barry, says: “The Games are acting as a catalyst and an opportunity....
...The programme, Rivers of Blood: the Real Source, by broadcaster and Powell biographer Robert Shepherd, was based on new material showing how Powell’s fears had been partly formed by the terrible violence...
...One of my first tasks as a trainee reporter was to cover a speech by Enoch Powell. Never, before or since, has my shorthand been subjected to such brutal examination....
...Immigration is a hot issue but the nation has proved more tolerant of ethnic minorities than seemed likely at the time of Enoch Powell’s “rivers of blood” speech 40 years ago....
...I meet Richard Barnbrook, leader of the BNP group on the council; Robert Bailey, its deputy leader; and Lawrence Rustem, a councillor....
...Isn’t Tennyson’s long poem, Enoch Arden, mawkish enough without music?...
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