In april 1968 Enoch Powell, a Tory cabinet minister, destroyed his political career when he denounced mass immigration as a disaster ("like the Roman", he said, "I seem to see 'the river Tiber foaming with much blood'"). Today Powell's arguments, if not his classical allusions, are becoming dangerously mainstream. Christopher Caldwell is an American journalist who writes for the liberal Financial Times as well as the conservative Weekly Standard. He has spent the past decade studying European immigration, travelling widely and reading voraciously in an impressive variety of languages. His controversial new book repeatedly echoes Powell's warnings all those years ago.
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