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[Wing Commander John Irving on his farm in Wiltshire] Wing
Commander John Irving on his farm in Wiltshire,
April 2003

Mandrake
[column] by Tim
Walker

Race relations

IN the field of race relations, there can be few men more reviled than David
Irving the apologist for Hitler who three years ago lost a libel action against an author who had branded him an “anti-Semite and racist.”

David “Nasty” Irving comments:

WELL up to the usual reporting standards of the post-Donald
MacLachlan Sunday Telegraph.
 True, I lost a libel action three years ago against
Deborah Lipstadt – but nowhere in her book had she branded me either an “anti-Semite” or a “racist.” Those allegations consequently did not figure in the original Trial
Pleadings. Defence counsel
Richard Rampton QC decided

however to play the “race card” as being the only way of getting their worm of an author off her hook, and he introduced the allegations in her amended defence, put in a few days before the trial began. The judge, Rampton’s old friend and sparring partner Mr Justice
Gray, should have spotted this and refused to hear any evidence on either allegation.

David’s older brother John, above,
has however gone some way towards redeeming the family’s name. He had been appointed chairman of
Wiltshire Racial Equality Council. His tolerance would appear, extraordinarily, to extend even to his errant brother.

Nice Irving says: “My brother has his views and
I have mine. The idea that brothers should share the same views is yet another form of stereotyping.
It’s a great honour and privilege to have been given the job that I have.”

Nasty Irving adds: “I can’t think of anyone better for the job. John doesn’t share my views, but he gives me a lot of moral support. I look up to him enormously, and he is certainly ten times more intelligent than I am.”© Copyright of
Telegraph Group Limited 2003.

from David Irving’s A
Radical’s Diary

Sept 2003: on
Ludovic Kennedy and the Blacks on British TV
screens
Feb 2003: “Geoffrey
Hoon waddles arrogantly out of the House, oddly
reminiscent of the brainless, grinning geese
that my brother keeps on his farm down in
Wiltshire”
July 2003: “A
London Sunday Telegraph columnist writes: ‘I was
just

reading that your brother, John, has been
appointed chairman of the Racial Equality
Council in Wiltshire.'”