I asked Powell if he was a racist. When he arrived I said simply: “Nice to meet you Mr Powell, I’m from the BBC.”“Where is Dr Barling?” he asked. Enoch Powell was to be a chief protagonist. He was startled, but I was used to fluster – I was often mistaken for a cab driver at the BBC. Powell bemoaned the European desire to resurrect the “Imperium of the Holy Roman Empire”; it would unleash the pent-up antipathies of European history, he said.

Source: The Guardian May 08, 2016 03:52 UTC