I had the honor to know the late Enoch Powell, the British MP due to become Prime Minister until John Major and Margaret Thatcher derailed him, with the help of the media and the establishment, over an anti-mass immigration speech. Powell, who came from a very poor background, rose to be a general after enlisting as a private in the British army in WWII, something unheard of at that time. He got a PhD in Urdu, and was famous as a teacher. He had been an imperialist, but became a non-interventionist Little Englander. He knew economics, and was a gold-standard … Continue reading Enoch Powell and Donald Trump