re: #683 John Neverbend

In the Victorian novel, The Prime Minister, there’s a scene where the PM and the leader of the opposition are having a go at each other, but they’re using selected Latin quotations. I’d like to see a return to that sort of thing.

I’m sure you remember Enoch Powell’s “rivers of blood” speech. Apparently, he wanted to quote in Latin from the Aeneid the relevant lines about Aeneas seeming to see the River Tiber foaming with much blood. In the end, he was advised to keep it all in English!

Yep - and he was reviled for that ever since!
Now Daniel Hannan, the Tory MEP and maverick, has been castigated by NuLab and their spin doctors because he dared to say that Enoch Powell was a hugely intelligent and well educated man, who had a lot to offer …