Documents on the Later, of course, we found out how much he was paid for defaming me on oath [ Previous Radical’s Diary ] November 4, 2008 (Tuesday) Windsor – London – Windsor (England) I SET out via Eton for London at three pm. Great difficulty parking at the Aldwych with the pay-by-phone system. Into King’s College Liddell Hart archives for the first time in over twenty-five years, with Jaenelle.
Chat there with two ladies about US universities’ acquisitions policy. Jaenelle has her long blonde hair carefully gathered into a queue ; she looks like a ripe plum in her city suit, which fits her like a glove. We stroll down the Strand and sit in the gathering darkness outside a café for half an hour watching passers-by hurrying homewards at five-thirty pm.
At six-fifteen pm we are in the Sheikh Zayed Hall — a sign of the times, that — at the London School of Economics in Kingsway; the woman guarding the LSE main entrance spots me, and as we go down the stairs I glance back. She is calling over a man and pointing at us.
So what; unless they decide to do what Deborah Lipstadt did in Atlanta in 1995, when she tried to have me evicted by armed campus police after I loudly offered her $1,000 (I waved the greenbacks in the air) if she could produce the “gas-chamber blueprint” which she had just told her audience of gullible students that she had. After a while there are slow handclaps and booing. The speaker, Professor Richard “Skunky” Evans , right , has still not arrived by 6:45 pm.
Unpunctuality, the worst discourtesy. Dr Gerhard Frey once docked 1,000 deutschmarks (around $500) from my fee for not arriving at a meeting in Erfurt on time. Eventually Evans comes scuttling in, to begin his talk twenty minutes after the appointed hour. His face is pinched and scowling, and he is clutching a canvas hold-all, its broad khaki strap strung across his opposite shoulder, like an elderly American tourist nervous that somebody may snatch her bag.
A brief introduction by the lady chairman mentions his previous works. He himself hesitates as he continues rehearsing his list of accomplishments, and when he reaches his appointment as chief expert witness in “a major libel action” it seems he has decided, in the circumstances of my presence, against including the name of the Plaintiff. In a flash I am transported