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“... 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 ...”

“... whom Thatcher still likes or admires. The soul-mates are virtually all conservative odd-balls: Enoch Powell, whose ‘greatest regret was that [he] wasn’t killed in the war’, the batty Keith Joseph, the transparently pretentious Laurens van der Post, the relentlessly downmarket Norman Tebbit and Alfred Sherman who, though Jewish himself, risked ...”

“... before 1914 were lived as one long invasion scare. And hence the way English nationalists like Enoch Powell, seeking to excite a national reaction against the ‘threat’ of coloured immigration, instinctively couched their message in terms of an invasion: the immigrants would come in ‘hordes’, ‘pouring in’ in a ‘flood’ to ‘take ...”

“... continued to simmer and the Times chuntered on about ‘the dark million’. In the late 1960s Enoch Powell began his fanatical campaigning and seemed to attract mass support. Pressure for new, even tighter immigration legislation was building up.It was now, a few years after Kenyan independence in 1963, that the British government became reluctantly ...”

“... from Alfred Sherman to Denis Thatcher: the Institute of Economic Affairs competing the while with Enoch Powell for the role of the enduring spiritual godfather whose time had come.Hugo Young, 5 December 1991 Phoned by the Guardian in a round-up of what people think of the departure of Mrs T. I say that I’m hopeless at this kind of thing and am simply ...”

“... above Tory heads as they contemplate an open appeal (as opposed to coded ones) to the Tony Martin/Enoch Powell vote. They have held off, well aware that this approach will put off at least as many voters as it puts on. So what are the Tories for? Nobody seems to know. At least New Labour knows what it’s for: to win elections. It is these longish-term ...”

“... terms. When Solzhenitsyn criticised the permissiveness he found in Western society, Enoch Powell growled: ‘No Englishman needs to take lessons in freedom from a Russian.’ As I write, the news from Putin’s Russia arrives in little packages done up in the same prejudice. Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the young billionaire who was suddenly ...”

“... he writes about happens through time, and that in war and politics, the passage of time – as Enoch Powell, a student of Thucydides, once observed – usually leads to tears. Shanske remarks that his book is a reply to Pericles’ claim that the Athenians would achieve a glory in war that would outlast the decline of their empire. One might add that ...”

“... only came out three years ago, when secret Foreign Office files were made public. At the time, Enoch Powell was one of the few MPs to deplore what had happened: ‘We cannot say, “We will have African standards in Africa, Asian standards in Asia and perhaps British standards here at home” … We must be consistent with ourselves ...”

“... Union and the spies, MPs and trade unionists he believed it had subverted. Of his good friend Enoch Powell, he writes: ‘We were … consciously devoted to the land called Britain – he preferred to call it England, having been born in Birmingham – and committed to the concept of nationhood, as we had experienced and enjoyed it in our youth.’ A ...”

“... about the radical potential of working-class politics was easily felt in a period bookended by Enoch Powell and Margaret Thatcher. In this hostile climate, Marxist historical scholarship experienced what Stedman Jones later called an ‘abrupt and terminal decline’. Reconstructing social totalities increasingly seemed a chimerical enterprise, and ...”

“... informs us, 60 per cent of his calls are to Black customers. It wouldn’t be all that long before Enoch Powell was to build his ‘rivers of blood’ speech around the story of a pensioner who, having lost a husband and two sons in the war, found herself practically the only white resident on her street.There is, however, an outside to Barny’s ...”

“... essay that Foster is writing about these two categories in the present as much as in the past. Enoch Powell, Brigid Rose Dugdale, even John Arden could be included in his list of Marginal Men (and Women); Foster himself and Tom Paulin, to whom the book is dedicated, could easily join the ranks of Micks on the Make. (Paulin, however, also has some ...”

“... Algeo routing some linguistic myths on tag questions, Keith Thomas on how to end a letter, and Enoch Powell on the relationship between the decline of the classics and that of grammar. A short, bad-tempered article by Kingsley Amis complaining of the ignorance, misuse and misprision of language nowadays is cunningly placed just before a confessional ...”

“... mystics like Laurens van der Post and the born-again Brian Griffiths, embittered outcasts like Enoch Powell and Ray Honeyford, men like Bernard Ingham and John Hoskyns whose previous Labour sympathies made them oddities in the Tory camp, émigrés from Britain like Alan Walters, Ian MacGregor and Robert Conquest. Her Jewish Cabinet members were by ...”