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When Malcolm X took on British Racism
Such was the furore following the election in Smethwick in 1964 that the civil rights campaigner Malcolm X was moved to pay a visit.
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Enoch Powell
Wolverhampton became a byword for hostility towards inhabitants who were not white and British when in 1968 Enoch Powell, a local MP, made a speech to his fellow Conservatives in which he called for people like my parents to be repatriated. As warning of what could happen should immigrants continue to be allowed into Britain…
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The Twist
In the coming weeks and months I will be publishing 24 short articles that I wrote following my conversations with the man who was also my literary editor and publisher who became caught up with the investigation into, what was then, the biggest bank robbery ever to have taken place in Ireland or Britain. The…