Enoch Powell’s ideas have been taken up by many far-right groups
The essence of nationalism is a sense of common cultural identity, whether underpinned by a common language, religion, history, territory, ‘homeland’ or ethnicity. However, there are many forms of nationalism, which was described by Anthony D. Smith in Nationalism in the Twentieth Century (Martin Robertson, 1979) as a ‘chameleon ideology’.
A race is a group that is perceived to share common physiological or genetic features. Racism is the belief that the human species is divided into biological castes that can be ranked in a meaningful hierarchy.
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