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TOP Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson’s burka outburst could see “rivers of blood” on Britain’s streets. The TV loudmouth caused outrage by claiming Muslim women wear G-strings under their burkas on last Sunday’s show. And hate preacher Anjem Choudary warned Islamic fanatics will “go to war” to protect the honour of their women. He declared: “Clarkson may think he was funny or was telling a joke when he said these things. But this is not funny to everyone. And by making fun or disrespecting the burka and Muslim women he has deeply offended many people...." “"Clarkson has stirred a hornets’ nest...

Immigration: A Plan To Alter The Nation's Soul The government's policy of mass immigration was intended to remodel the social fabric of the nation, says Janet Daley By Janet Daley 13 Feb 2010 So now we know what Labour's immigration policy was really about. The "open door" was not simply held ajar in order to admit a fresh workforce that would help to fill gaps in the growing economy. Nor was it just a gesture of hospitality and goodwill to those who were fleeing from repressive or inhospitable regimes in order to seek a better life. Both of those aims...

Enoch Powell’s ‘rivers of blood’ speech destroyed his career, but was there a message in it for our time? Forty years ago today, in a Birmingham hotel, a leading British politician made a speech which continues to echo down the years. It was Enoch Powell’s famous address on immigration, subsequently labelled the ‘rivers of blood’ speech. The relationship of British - or, indeed, wider European - politics with the question of immigration has never been the same. At the time, Britain was one generation into principally Afro-Caribbean immigration. Powell used unacceptable language and expressions to attack the then unrestricted immigration...

Britons fear race violence - poll Almost two-thirds of people in Britain fear race relations are so poor tensions are likely to spill over into violence, a BBC poll has suggested. Of the 1,000 people asked, 60% said the UK had too many immigrants and half wanted foreigners encouraged to leave. But the proportion of people describing themselves as "racially prejudiced" was down to 20%, compared with 24% in 2005. Equality and Human Rights Commission head Trevor Phillips said the findings were "alarming". Britain's last serious race riots - when violent clashes erupted between white and Asian youths in...

About 60,000 Bhutanese, now in United Nations camps in Nepal, are to be flown to the U.S. over the next five years by direction of the State Department. Nepal wants Bhutan to take them back in. Bhutan says they are economic migrants and will not. To solve the problem, the State Department will bring most of them here. This will help achieve President Bush's social vision of 70,000 refugees for 2007 and help justify staff and salaries at State. The airplane flights will wind up costing millions. One month after the Bhutanese arrive, they will be eligible for federal, state...

Should he have spoken? By Roger ScrutonIn 1968 the products of the postwar baby boom decided to seize the European future and to jettison the European past. In that same year Enoch Powell delivered to the Birmingham Conservatives the speech known forever after as “Rivers of Blood”: a speech that cost him his political career, and which, on one plausible interpretation, made the issue of immigration undiscussable in British politics for close to forty years. It is a speech that raises in its acutest form the question of truth: What place is there for truth in public life, and...