Rivers of Blood
By Enoch Powell: The full transcript of Enoch Powell’s so called ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech delivered to a Conservative Association meeting in Birmingham on April 20th 1968. The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils. In seeking to do so, it encounters obstacles which are deeply rooted in human nature. One is that by the very order of things such evils are not demonstrable until they have occurred: at each stage in their…
A Young English Woman, English Law & the Presumption of Innocence
By Max Musson: A young English woman, alleged to be 19 year old Coral Millerchip, has been arrested and charged with assault by West Midlands police following an incident in the centre of Coventry on Friday between her and a Sikh man alleged to be 80 years of age. A video of the incident was captured by a passer-by, which begins with the young woman in an already enraged state, shouting for her friends to…