who were blamed for stealing jobs, stealing money and turfed out. what sort of reception did he get when he came here? did he tell you about that? yeah. he has spoken to me about his experiences in 1960s, early 70s london, and it s fair to say our country s made huge progress. he s told me about a story when he was in the pub with his friends as a young man upon his arrival and being chased down the road by skinheads. and i can imagine the language they used. yeah, exactly. the p word. right. and he s been on the receiving end of verbal abuse. and i think about my experience growing up in london in the 1980s and onwards and not coming across anything near as aggressive, and intimidating and harassing. and so i really feel a sense of pride about race relations in the united kingdom and where we are as a nation, and how we re comfortable with that. that year that he fled kenya and came here was the year of enoch powell s rivers of blood speech. there were warnings
associated with the story of empire she was born into and much more to do with her role as head of the commonwealth and she represented the post imperial story of why black and asian communities which was significantly contested in the politics of the 60s and 70s. the monarch was seen as a symbol of british history, explaining british identity to british minorities. help me understand identity to british minorities. help me understand why identity to british minorities. help me understand why the queen was more associated with the commonwealth rather than with history and the empire? why do you think that happened emmy kaiser of british asians? ~ , , ., asians? well in the eyes of british asians? asians? well in the eyes of british asians? there s - asians? well in the eyes of british asians? there s the - asians? well in the eyes of- british asians? there s the decision to create the commonwealth that reflects the king and queen as head of the commonwealth. my father cam
another. i mostly saw the young scholar, the young liberal the head of the gadhafi foundation. these other two people were there the one who won the battle clearly last week was the gadhafi son. is that what you thought when you heard the rivers of blood speech? die. i thought foolishly about the godfather. the character played the young son of the godfather who had gone straight who was a wore her joorks civilian, not part of the family but when his father came under attacking changed sides joined him and eventually became the godfather himself in the most demonic and brutal of the godfathers. i felt with saif he made a choice in that internal struggle he had. he made a choice, i am the son, clan, blood is powerful in the middle east and in north africa. he made the choice. if my father is under attack, the my brothers will die i ll stay and die with him. that makes him in some ways the most dangerous.
i mostly saw the young scholar, the young liberal the head of the gadhafi foundation. these other two people were there the one who won the battle clearly last week was the gadhafi son. is that what you thought when you heard the rivers of blood speech? i did. i thought foolishly about the godfather. the character played the young son of the godfather who had gone straight who was a war hero, civilian, not part of the sicillian family. but when his father came under attacking changed sides joined him and eventually became the godfather himself in the most demonic and brutal of the godfathers. i felt with saif he made a choice in that internal struggle he had. he made a choice, i am the son, clan, blood is powerful in the middle east and in north africa. he made the choice. if my father is under attack, if my brothers are going to die, i will stay and die with him.
as intelligent? highly intelligent. my own view is that a fool and a lunatic could not stay in power for 42 years in a tribal state like libya. you knew saif much better. much better. he was a young man, 38 now. he was a student for most of the time i knew him at the london school of economics. and we interacted the way, you know, i might with other young scholars and young students. how did he strike you. he struck me as somebody who was torn from within with perhaps three different views of the world. you have the scholar, you have the gadhafi son who we saw in the rivers of blood speech and then you also had a typical corrupt son of a middle eastern play bio. polish and russian financial connection, make lot of money, part of the oil industry, developing hotels. he had these three pieces inside of him kind of at war with one