It isn’t just racism that should bar Enoch Powell from a blue plaque

Enoch Powell refused to even set eyes on a thalidomide child, says Catherine Bulmer.In addition to Enoch Powell’s hideous “rivers of blood” speech of 1968, he has another claim to infamy which should preclude him from being commemorated in this way (Bishop joins opposition to ‘honouring racist views of Enoch Powell’ with blue plaque, 9 February).Harold Evans remembers Powell as saying “No sir” repeatedly in the Commons over the Distaval (thalidomide