From the desk of Sean Gabb on Sat, 2011-08-27 09:00 A couple of weeks ago, the historian David Starkey made a comment [video] on the riots. Starkey denounced the "particular sort of violent, destructive, nihilistic, gangster culture [that] has become the fashion", and he concluded that "the whites have become black". He has been widely denounced for what he said, not least because he referred approvingly to Enoch Powell. Professor Starkey is able to defend himself. What concerns me and the Libertarian Alliance is how our increasingly totalitarian ruling class regards Enoch Powell as some kind of Emmanuel Goldstein, the people's enemy number one in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Even if nothing controversial in itself is said, to speak of him without visible and ritualistic loathing will bring you under suspicion of thought crime.The Vilification Of Enoch Powell
Sunday 28 August 2011
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