Enoch Powell Articles

Enoch at 100 is not really, as its subtitle claims, ‘a re-evaluation of the life, politics and philosophy of Enoch Powell’, more a rather belated Festschrift. It is an overwhelmingly friendly assessment of its subject. While Tom Bower in his chapter on immigration...

Ukip is set to dominate the European elections. Nick Lowles sifts the evidence on why people vote for it The local elections and European parliamentary elections this May are going to be difficult for progressives and anti-racists. They will be contested against a...

‘There is one thing you can be sure of with the Conservative party, before anything else – they have a grand sense of where the votes are,’ suggested Enoch Powell at the height of Margaret Thatcher’s unpopularity in 1981. Over the past two decades that sense appears...

The suburbs have long attracted criticism. In the 1852 novel Basil by Wilkie Collins it is said that anyone taking a trip to suburbia would most likely have taken leave of their senses because ‘its newness and desolateness of appearance revolted me.’ It is likely he...