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6 unusual facts about Enoch Powell


Catherine M. Hall

Four years later she publicly criticised as too small a proposed 2.5% salary hike for nurses although she opposed the notion of striking, although some nurses did go on strike, which caused the Conservative Minister of Health (Enoch Powell) to complain about the "controversy which has caused widespread embarrassment", which she rebutted, defending the nurses.

Eddie McGrady

In Westminster elections he contested South Down unsuccessfully in 1979, 1983 and at the by-election of January 1986, losing on each occasion to Enoch Powell, the sitting MP.

Movement for Colonial Freedom

The organisation opposed Enoch Powell’s "rivers of blood speech" in 1968 and also campaigned against neo-colonialism after independence, and opposed military take-overs in Africa, Asia and Latin America, such as the Pinochet coup in 1973.

Netherne Hospital

In 1961, following the so-called Water Tower Speech by Minisiter of Health Enoch Powell which called for mental hospitals to be closed in favour of community care and the use of general hospital acute units, Netherne formed a partnership with Redhill General Hospital in 1965, and the intake of patients was gradually reduced.

Radio Enoch

Radio Enoch was a pirate radio station in the United Kingdom, operating out of the West Midlands, homeland of its namesake, Enoch Powell.

South Down by-election, 1986

It resulted in the narrow virtory of the incumbent Ulster Unionist Party, Enoch Powell, a seat that some had predicted he would lose.


The Salisbury Review

Contributors have included Antony Flew, Christie Davies, Enoch Powell, Margaret Thatcher, Václav Havel, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Norman Stone, and Theodore Dalrymple.


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