‘White Riot’: Rubika Shah’s Rock Against Racism doc shows punk politics are still vital
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nme.comRod Stewart at the time, of the notorious Conservative MP. “I’m all for him. This country is overcrowded. The immigrants should be sent home.” Looking like an evil Victorian ghost, Powell laid out his racist beliefs via a 1968 rant which would come to be known as his ‘Rivers Of Blood’ speech.
Powell would speak of being “filled with foreboding” at the country’s rising immigration. “Like the Roman, I seem to see the River Tiber foaming with much blood.”It didn’t help that the normally saintly David Bowie, particularly drug-addled at this point, could be seen telling anyone who’d listen that “Britain could benefit from a fascist leader.” In later years, he’d profoundly reject how far he’d drifted from the empathy and smarts that for so long.
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