Julian T. Jackson

Julian Jackson is a professor of history at Queen Mary University and the author of 'A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle'.

The problem with Anglo-Gaullism

Enoch Powell was a great admirer of General de Gaulle. That didn’t stop him, at the end of his career, rallying to the Ulster Unionist cause — rather ignoring the fact that de Gaulle happily sacrificed the French Algerians to the higher cause of France. In the same spirit as Powell, one hears talk today