News about Enoch Powell

CRAIG BROWN: On a visit to the barber, the late Enoch Powell, never the chummiest of characters, was asked how he would like his hair cut. 'In silence,' came his reply. I thought of Mr Powell when I heard the news that a hairdresser in Finland has launched a 'silent service' for those who prefer a bit of hush. Kati Hakomeri, who runs her own salon in Helsinki, has little time for small talk, big talk or, indeed, any sort of talk at all. Nor do her clients: many can think of nothing new to say from one visit to the next. 'If nothing new has happened in life during that time, why talk about it?' she says. I'm with the silent brigade. If I were a Finn, I'd make a beeline for Ms Hakomeri's salon. I always dread hairdressers saying: 'Going anywhere nice this summer?' Or 'Crikey, where did you get this cut last?' That's why I always go to a barber who has his radio permanently tuned in to noisy discussions about football.

The former home secretary and leading contender to dismiss Kevin Powell's as the next Tory chief, according to the London mayor, was 'doing her best to outflank Enoch Powell' - the former minister is known for his 'rivers of blood' speech on immigration. The Tories shifted their attention away from Speaker Lindsay Hoyle to Keir Starmer's role in the Commons this week, and Mrs Braverman made the incendiary remarks. Sir Lindsay has apologized twice for ripping up the Commons rule book, a move that has helped the Labour leader prevent a crippling protest over the Middle East's war from escalating.

An inquiry has been launched into the'strange happening' of why a brook in Birmingham went red. On Wednesday, a member of the public noticed the blood coloured stream at Perry Common Meadows. Birmingham City Council has since launched an investigation into the enigmatic occurrence. The brook's environmental investigators are now looking at why the brook now looks like scenes someone might expect to see at the end of the world. Jilly Bermingham, the city councillor, posted, "I have been made aware of the strange happenings in Perry Common Meadows and I'm investigating it."

In Britain, two particularly important questions remain unanswered and unanswered almost every day. The horrible killings in Nottingham, where people were going about their normal lives, were struck by a mentally ill individual (pictured), who then demanded that they be asked and answered.

He has been branded a bigote and a Nazi, not to mention that a sign of such depravity exists in society, which means that the allegations cannot be published in a family newspaper. Were Nick Fletcher to look himself on Twitter this week, he'll be crucified, even by the usual suspects - the Left-wing commentariat, Labour tribalists, and a few nutters with a few genuine foam-flecked nutters. Don Valley, the Conservative MP for Don Valley, one of three parliamentary seats in Doncaster's borough, had the courage to stand up in the House of Commons this week and utter a grave heresy. 'Doncaster is full' in his address to MPs. And then the jeers got to work.

Three Women, which was based on Sir Lenny Henry's own family's life, were focusing on three women who moved from Jamaica to England in 1957 in the search of a fresh start.

Suella Braverman's warning of a 'hurricane' will entice British 'xenophobes,' a Labour frontbencher said today. Stephen Kinnock (left) Shadow Immigrant Minister Stephen Kinnock (right) said there is a "segment of the electorate" that is 'xenophobic,' and that he would work with the Home Secretary (right). Ms Braverman's address to the Tory conference last week was a "new low," he said.

Although some people were struggling, the party's deputy chairman, who has been dubbed '30p Lee,' after previous remarks on eating on a budget, said that the country is in a much better shape than it was in the 1970s. "I don't believe all this nonsense... poverty nonsense," he said in a wide-ranging discussion at a Conservative Party Conference fringe event. It was real poverty when I was growing up in the 1970s that was carried back to when I was growing up in the 70s. It's now nonsense, and it's complete nonsense. Well, life is tough for families, people are trying to budget occasionally, but this is not an impoverished island. If you want something, this is a wealthy world. If you want something, go and get it. To get it for yourself, you'll need to get off your a*** and go to get it for yourself.' He also defended the false news that the HS2 rail line north of Birmingham would be scrapped, saying that the funds could be better spent on buses.

Thousands of people could come to the United Kingdom, including those who would work off the streets and juveniles who would groom children, according to a Tory conference address yesterday. In a hardline speech designed to appeal to the right of the party and position Ms Braverman, 43, as the leading contender to replace Rishi Sunak. It sparked outrage from her political rivals inside and outside the Conservative Party. However, Defence Secretary James Shapps used an interview this morning to defend her, insisting that she herself is a child of immigration, as well as he is.

According to Sir Trevor Philips (left), Britain has a lot to be proud of in combating bigotry, which is why Harry and Meghan's (right) self-indulgent silliness is driving him hopping mad. 'They could have been a beacon of discovery and reconciliation! He says, not just to Britain, but also the world.' 'They completely squandered a golden opportunity to show everyone what this country is really like in terms of race and ethnicity,' he says, getting crosser and crosser. "They wrote this completely unnecessary and painful tale about how they were mistreated,' which, frankly, no one believes.' (Inset: British liner 'Empire Windrush' in 1954)

The matter of bigotry is always present in this drama, and Othello's touching address of his wooing of Desdemona - 'he loved me for the risks I had witnessed, and she loved her that she pity them' - is met with bigoted yelps. Roderigo is a noose. Othello, however, is a general, and his eloquent addresses her this nobility, and only yobbish villains regard him as a sort of savage. Yet, Clint Dyer, the first black director to direct a major production of the National Theatre, reveals that his Othello has an inherent danger, even to his fellow soldiers. Giles Terera opens with a spear-carrying dance and then progresses to a slinky athleticism.

The New York Times has sparked uproar inside No. 10 by comparing Liz Truss to Enoch Powell's 'notorious bigotry' and his 'rivers of blood' remark. The article titled "Britain's New Prime Minister Is Still In Thrall To The Empire" claims that Ms Truss' most apt antecedent is the former Tory Minister who became an outcast after a dramatic 1968 speech on refugees. Powell predicted bloody ethnic tensions and said that in 15 to 20 years' time, the black man will have the whip hand over the white man.'

GUY ADAMS Joseph Kahn (pictured) is executive editor of the New York Times, America's most renowned newspaper, and mustard is keen on pouring scorn in the general direction of Britain and its Royal Family. How else can we explain the insensitive and at times grotesque manner in which the 'Old Grey Lady' - a nickname Kahn's Left-leaning paper owes to its dreary layout and headlines - has chosen to mark the death of the Queen? With a lengthy commentary piece by Harvard professor Maya Jasanoff, the New York Times launched its coverage, not the monarch's death.'

1968 was a dreadful year, even by 2008's appalling measures. In Vietnam, the war raged. Northern Ireland was in turmoil. The Soviet Union occupied Czechoslovakia. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy were assassinated. In London's Grosvenor Square, an anti-war protester of unprecedented brutality had taken place, and a portion of the Left Bank in Paris had been set ablaze.