Enoch Powell was the quintessential clever fool. As a classical scholar and a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, he displayed dazzling intellectual gifts; in 1938, at the age of twenty-five, he ...

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At the 1938 ceremony for the conferring of degrees in the Faculties of Arts and Law at the University of Sydney, the address was given by the newly appointed professor of Greek, Enoch Powell. Although ...

If I say that I used to be very afraid of Enoch Powell, I think a certain proportion of Literary Review readers will guess what I mean. To be a socialist in the 1960s was to know that, even as the ...

At all events, the discussion of future grave but, with effort now, avoidable evils is the most unpopular and at the same time the most necessary occupation for the politician. Those who knowingly ...

President Donald Trump said Tuesday he “has no intention of firing” Jerome Powell from the Federal Reserve, seemingly shutting down speculation he would attempt to remove Powell from his post ...

It requires us to be grave, not silly. One of the events I chaired at the Oxford Literary Festival ... I remember years ago, asking him on Radio 4 why he hadn’t talked to black Britons when penning ...

One is currently pending before the Supreme Court, where any attempt to fire Powell would almost certainly end up. A lot would hinge on just how Trump might choose to "fire" the Fed chief. As each of ...

President Donald Trump said Tuesday he has “no intention” of attempting to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, despite his angry social media posts directed at the central bank leader in ...

White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said on Friday President Donald Trump and his team were studying the matter when asked if firing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell was an option ...

Donald Trump backed off from his threats to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell after market volatility, confirming Powell would remain through his term ending in 2026. Investors grew concerned ...