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Article: Elegy for a contrarian. (Enoch Powell)
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- The National Interest
- Article date:
- June 22, 1998
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After Enoch Powell's death in February, at the age of eighty-five, he received the kind of broad-based acclaim from the British establishment never offered during the key battles of his lifetime, and denied him most particularly during the pivotal half dozen years after 1968, when he was expelled from the Tory leadership only to emerge as Britain's foremost "nationalist" politician. Thirty years later Paul Johnson wrote that save for Churchill and Margaret Thatcher, Powell would be the most remembered British political figure of the century. He probably has no equal in capacity to provoke argument. Barely two months after his death, the BBC's Channel Four put on the screen ...