Politics Theory Other // Enoch Powell: Britain's first neoliberal politician w/ Robbie Shilliam
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English - April 12, 2021 08:38 - 26 minutes - 26.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsNews History Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Robbie Shilliam joins PTO to talk about his article, 'Enoch Powell: Britain’s First Neoliberal Politician' which appeared in the New Political Economy Journal. We spoke about how Enoch Powell, far from being a political throwback was in fact a key figure in the emergence of neoliberalism and Thatcherism, and how his politics presaged the Brexit project. We also chatted about how Powell, in contrast to many conservatives became hostile to nostalgia for the British Empire and how he believed that an independent Britain, neither ruling an empire, nor becoming part of the embryonic European Union would find its proper place in the world.