Jailing Brits for Facebook posts isn’t justice

In May 1971, on The Dick Cavett Show, the theatre director Jonathan Miller had a prickly encounter with the Conservative politician Enoch Powell. He rebuked Powell for raising concerns about integration, culture clashes and social disruption, claiming that the Tory MP and others were creating a problem where none needed to exist. In Miller’s account, ordinary Britons would barely notice any downsides of immigration in their day-to-day experience — unless those like Powell primed them to regard it as a problem. Better for politicians not to discuss it at all, like a Victorian paterfamilias refusing to mention money in front of the servants.