#enoch-powell

#enoch-powell

The US's clear military and economic dominance of the postwar world gave it an obvious claim to seniority; however, there was also a strong strain within English conservatism at the time that saw itself as Greeks in this American empire, in the words of former Tory prime minister Harold Macmillan. In other words, even if the Americans were to be the new Romans, extending their dominion over every corner of the globe, without the intellectual, cultural and political guidance of their wise old mother country they would quickly fall into ruin.

I deeply regret using it. I wouldn't have used those words if I had known they were, or even would be, interpreted as an echo of Powell.

The 1968 Race Relations Act strengthened protections for immigrant communities and ensured access to quality education and employment for second generation immigrants.