Enoch Powell 'maybe should have known better'

[Arthur Little]

Slightly perhaps ... but - returning to the *subject of this thread - didn't *Enoch Powell also have HIS "darker" ('scuse pun) side ... as manifested in his somewhat callous, unsympathetic attitude towards the parents of children deformed by the thalidomide drug during his tenure as Minister of Health in the early 1960s?

[CBM]

Slightly perhaps ... but - returning to the *subject of this thread - didn't *Enoch Powell also have HIS "darker" ('scuse pun) side ... as manifested in his somewhat callous, unsympathetic attitude towards the parents of children deformed by the thalidomide drug during his tenure as Minister of Health in the early 1960s?

er. absolutely on topic - and thank you, I was unaware of that. A quick Google produced this:

http://blogs.wsj.com/iainmartin/2010...-enoch-powell/

[Arthur Little]

er. absolutely on topic - and thank you, I was unaware of that. A quick Google produced this:

http://blogs.wsj.com/iainmartin/2010...-enoch-powell/

Thank you! Yes ... I was a teenager at the time, but remember only too well, reading about the horrific consequences suffered by the thousands of women (and, by default, their offspring) who'd taken the drug - unaware of its effects. And Powell's *dismissive manner in dealing with its victims (*i.e., that people who took even aspirin were aware of the risks) shows up significant flaws in the man's character.