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[ Previous Radical’s Diary ] Key West (USA) UP at six-thirty a.m. Too much on my mind and a lot to do today. I deal with bookstore and emails. I tell a South Africa customer: ” J[aenelle Antas] has suddenly quit to get married in Australia, so I am handling the bookstore for a while, and I will get those books rushed to you as soon as I can. Perhaps even sign them.” The Daily Mail says Rachel Johnson has been sacked from The Lady .
I tell Jessica, who’s her daughter’s best friend. From London, Jessica replies haughtily: “Both you and Daily Mail are so misleading! She has just moved positions.” I reply: “Gosh, let that be a lesson to us not to believe what we read in newspapers. I am now back in cottage at Key West. Drove 650 miles since yesterday lunchtime [to West Palm Beach to visit a supporter]. There and back. Have you looked for driving lessons yet?”
Then comes a distinctly suspicious request: Dear Several years ago we read an article that said that you were trying to authenticate some hair of Hitler that was in your possession. Can I ask whether this you still have this hair and whether it has been authenticated? With thanks, Gillian Mosely I reply non-committally. I have the wisp of the hair, but I am not offering it for sale.
The Daily Telegraph ‘s Tim Walker asks me: “Any view about whether Aidan Burley should step down as an MP after attending a party at which Nazi uniforms were worn?” I reply, suitably tongue-in-cheek: “I always recommend to my friends that they avoid wearing Nazi Party uniforms if they possibly can. It is all so retro, and not usually a career-enhancing choice.
Since his boss — the Transport Minister Theresa Villiers MP — approved of my 14-month imprisonment (2005-6) in solitary confinement in Vienna for an opinion I had expressed sixteen years earlier, he appears to be in good company however. It has inflicted permanent damage on my frame, and I am having to