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I don't think I have been so furious in years. Gerald Augustinus' Closed Cafeteria, a blog I USED TO read regularly - they can forget about me from now on - has published in full the infamous racist speech that ended the career of loathsome British politician Enoch Powell in 1968. The blog claimed that this piece of filthy black-bashing, aimed entirely at people with dark skins, had anything to do with the current episodes of terrorism in Britain. This is total, complete, unmitigated rubbish, and shows a revolting inability to distinguish between opposition to militant Islam and brute racism with which I do not want to be involved. If anyone else here has ever had the bad idea of reading Closed Cafeteria, I urge you to stop and let him know why.

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Re: On a more general topic

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I have to write an essay on this, but in general I would say that the American right feels very concerned by the rise of Europe as a world power pursuing its own policy - which is very different from what American conservatives find manly, and is best described as passive-aggressive. These remarks may sound rather Delphic, but I hope to become clearer in the future.