Enoch D. Boothe

Penning Poison by Emily Cockayne — the impulse to send venomous letters

...Enoch Knowles, a factory worker, targeted famous people, including judges, royals and high-up clergymen — or, as he pleaded in his defence, “folks that I have seen in the newspapers”....

September 21, 2023

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Transcript: Who still votes Conservative?

...Miranda GreenI’d call that a fairly honourable defeat....

February 2, 2024

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Transcript: Why would anyone want to become an MP?

...Michael CrickI’d buy one or two, and then I’d certainly buy loads of George Galloway’s, ‘cause he will now . . . It looks like making his fourth appearance as an MP for a fourth different seat....

February 23, 2024

Watches & Jewellery

Glasgow’s Argyll Arcade: ‘If you make it here, you can make it anywhere’

...As a young man I’d look in the windows of Mappin & Webb and wonder how anyone could ever afford what’s there.”...

October 6, 2023

Due Diligence

A tale of two hedge funds Premium

...Jones Day’s Alexandra Wilde and Kirkland & Ellis’s Enoch Varner are joining Clifford Chance’s new Houston office where they’ll focus on energy and infrastructure M&A....

June 14, 2023

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Sunak and Starmer flip-flop on policies

...They’d had a huge influx of defectors from the Labour party and Change UK who’d sort of fallen in with them....

September 29, 2023

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Business of Art

Market shifts and future growth

InterviewLunch with the FT

Michael Heseltine: ‘The adults are back in charge’

...“He’d ring me early in the morning — I’d be asleep,” he chuckles. He doesn’t dwell over the menu. “I like leek and potato soup a lot,” he says....

March 17, 2023

John McTernan

How to run a government from Downing Street

...If politicians wanted a quiet life, they’d be accountants or actuaries....

September 2, 2022

The Henry Mance Interview

‘A bonfire of the decencies’: Peter Hennessy on Boris Johnson’s government

...He quotes Walter Bagehot and impersonates Enoch Powell; he has a plaster statue of Clement Attlee in a storeroom....

May 23, 2022

Queen Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II: an appreciation by Simon Schama

...first time as a widow, not clothed in the dark weeds of inconsolable sorrow as Queen Victoria had been, but with a smile of remembrance, sweetly conjuring up the “mischievous twinkle” in the eye that she’d...

September 9, 2022

Merryn Somerset Webb

Neil Woodford’s rocky return

...Who’d want to invest in that?...

February 19, 2021

Lunch with the FT

Arlene Foster: ‘If the union is to succeed, we need to be a bigger tent’

...All political careers end in failure, to paraphrase Enoch Powell, whose own political career ended in Northern Ireland. The real question is what happens to the ideas behind them....

May 28, 2021

The Weekend Essay

From Suez to Brexit and back again: Britain’s long search for a role

...Enoch Powell stood at the head of the English nationalists on the Tory right; Tony Benn and Peter Shore were among prominent objectors on the left....

January 15, 2021

Expats

Inside one of Paris’s last frontiers of gentrification

...The neighbourhood is also home to a co-operative supermarket called La Louve, modelled on the Park Slope co-op in Brooklyn and run by an American called Tom Boothe, who set it up a few years back....

January 17, 2020

The Crown: a series special

The Queen’s new clothes: behind the scenes of ‘The Crown’ season three

...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....

November 8, 2019

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Video: How Boris Johnson's Brexit election gamble maps out

...I think then they'd have no choice if Labour insisted on it. Well, they'd rule out a coalition. But a coalition is one thing, and allowing somebody to govern is another....

October 30, 2019

FT CollectionsTheresa May and Brexit

Brexit: the Conservatives and their thirty years’ war over Europe

...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....

December 14, 2018

ReviewFT Books Essay

Britain, America and the battle for mastery of the Middle East

...prime minister whose career crashed when the US pulled the plug on the 1956 Anglo-French campaign to reclaim the Suez Canal, recalled in retirement a conversation he had with his Conservative colleague Enoch...

November 30, 2018

FT CollectionsTuck into a Brexit-flavoured Lunch with the FT

Lunch with the FT: Nigel Farage

...It would be even worse, he says, if he’d succeeded in his seventh attempt to enter parliament last year. “Can you imagine if I’d been elected to Westminster? I’d need to be there every day.”...

April 8, 2016

FT Magazine

Where should Britain go post-Brexit?

...He targets Number 10 and 11 Downing Street — which he says are “basically being run by the same people who’d run the Remain campaign.”...

January 11, 2019

Lunch with the FTTuck into a Brexit-flavoured Lunch with the FT

Daniel Hannan, the brains behind Brexit: what’s next for Britain?

...It was Enoch Powell who first inspired Hannan to question Brussels, and the Maastricht treaty that convinced him Britain needed to leave....

January 27, 2017

Q&AThe Questionnaire

The Inventory: Chef Clare Smyth

...Photographs: Jon Enoch/The Times Newspapers Ltd; Dreamstime Illustration by Serge Seidlitz...

September 23, 2016

ReviewLife & Arts

Ever the diplomat: Sir Malcolm Rifkind’s autobiography ‘Power and Pragmatism’

...Towards the end of Power and Pragmatism, Sir Malcolm takes issue with Enoch Powell’s claim that all political lives end in failure....

August 9, 2016

ReviewLife & Arts

Tiken Jah Fakoly: Racines — review

...Guest vocalists U-Roy, Ken Boothe and Max Romeo lend an authoritative stamp of approval....

September 25, 2015

News in-depthThe Big Read

Britain: A time to lead rather than leave the EU?

...Enoch Powell, the Tory MP and former minister, made English nationalism his own....

June 13, 2016

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