A Radical’s Diary: November 26, 2002
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A Radical’s Diary: November 26, 2002

THIS goes to our barrister, Adrian Davies: "Thank you for your encouraging words last night. I have on an afterthought gone through the entire transcripts digitally today looking for the…

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A Radical’s Diary: December 15, 2002
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A Radical’s Diary: December 15, 2002

Baker Tilly [the liquidators who seized my home and possessions on May 23] are furious at finding that I only gave copies of the Churchill desk diaries to Churchill College…

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A Radical’s Diary: January 6, 2003
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A Radical’s Diary: January 6, 2003

A SUPPORTER sends me an angry e-mail, because I rejected "Salvadore Astucia" (a rather pretentious pseudonym for an American) for last year's Cincinnati weekend as a speaker.

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A Radical’s Diary: January 15, 2003
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A Radical’s Diary: January 15, 2003

11:14 PM an email from Adrian Davies [my Counsel] reports: "I've just had a look at the Court Service website, which suggests that we have the whole morning allocated to…

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A Radical’s Diary: January 27, 2003
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A Radical’s Diary: January 27, 2003

A RELAXED Sunday lunch with Jessica at the Spaghetti House. She asks me, during a quiet moment, "Daddy, is it normal for people to get their homes taken? I mean,…

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A Radical’s Diary: February 7, 2003
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A Radical’s Diary: February 7, 2003

A GRACIOUS letter comes from Jeremy Paxman, who is one of the BBC's finest broadcasters and most challenging, no-nonsense interviewers. We had sent him reference copies of "Hitler's War" (Millennium…

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A Radical’s Diary: March 23, 2003
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A Radical’s Diary: March 23, 2003

Up at 9:20 AM. I had written on January 8 to Duncan Sandys Jr requesting access to the late Lord Sandys' papers which are "open" in the Churchill archives, in…

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A Radical’s Diary: April 11, 2003
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A Radical’s Diary: April 11, 2003

I am collected at Athens airport by my publisher, Costas Govostis. As we drive through endless suburbs along the newly opened freeway, he tells me that his family publishing business…

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