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Criticality not Commemoration: responding to the BBC airing Enoch Powell's 'Rivers of Blood' speech

Chris Allen, School of Social Policy Associate writes for the Social Sciences Birmingham blog: The decision by the BBC to air Enoch Powell's 'Rivers of Blood' speech in full, in commemoration of its 50th anniversary, is nothing less than bewildering.

17 April 2018
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