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18 March 2017

9:00 AM

18 March 2017

9:00 AM

Researching for my last piece on Enoch Powell, I was more than a little amused to read about the abuse he copped for calling second- and third-generation immigrants ‘aliens’ and including them in migration statistics. It caused a brouhaha then, as it would today – albeit for different reasons. Powell’s complaint in the Sixties was that mass immigration would preclude assimilation.

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