Who can tell us what happened at The Independent
(London) on Tuesday morning, Nov 27, 2007? Please
contact us. Their front page, highlighted on TV
programmes the night before, carried a whole page photograph
of David Irving arriving at the Oxford Union. This was, uh,
improved later to the front page at right; who got at the
Not-So Independent? 
Spot
the difference. Front page of The Independent, Nov 27,
2007. Top: Mr Irving arrives to fight for Free Speech;
below, the later editions: the newspaper's new heroes are
those who failed to stop him speaking. | Index On November
26, 2007 David Irving finally spoke at the Oxford Union.
Seven previous invitations had been cancelled or beaten down
by the traditional enemies of Free Speech. 
YouTube
video of David
Irving speaking at the Oxford Union, Nov 26,
2007
(furtively filmed, 8 mins: poor sound: note the two
Lefties silently flouncing out at 4:50) |with links to
more video | a
nearly complete transcript of David Irving's
speech- Peter
Hitchens (brother of the admirable Christopher H)
equivocates in the Daily Mail about Mr Irving -- a
good historian, but... "Free
speech is for nasty people, not nice
ones"
- Süddeutsche
Zeitung: Holocaustleugner
Irving in Oxford: Eklat an Elite-Uni: Es ist eine
Schande:
Wegen der Einladung des Holocaustleugners Irving ist es
an der Universität Oxford zu heftigen Protesten
gekommen [in German]
- Meinungsfreiheit:
Eine erbärmliche
Figur:
Von
wütenden Protesten begleitet sind die verurteilten
Rechtsextremen Irving und Griffin in Oxford aufgetreten -
und nutzten die Gelegenheit, Demonstranten als
"Pöbel" zu beschimpfen und sich als Märtyrer zu
geben [in German]. (Their correspondent Alexander
Menden, like all other journalists, did not get into the
chamber: but hey, don't let the truth get in the way of a
good story)
- David
Irving, a Radical's Diary: After thirty years, I finally
speak at the Oxford Union. Not everybody is happy about
it
- The
debate at the Oxford Union: a student's full eyewitness
account |
and Mr Irving's mild rebuke to Luke
Tryl
-
Cherwell
(the Oxford student newspaper) posts a video of street
interviews that evening
- BBC
report on the event - an Oriel undergraduate said most
questions were addressed to Mr
Irving.
He
said: "I think it was a very balanced argument and both
sides did really well."
| Guardian
| Independent
| Evening
Standard:
Will
Self: "I loathe these bigots' views but we can't just ban
hate"
--
(who are the bigots, then, Will? Get your heroin-addled
brain sorted out.)
- Der
Spiegel's version
[in German, but good photos] | Mark Hoofnagle
[where do they get these
names?]:
Holocaust
Denier David Irving at Oxford - A report
- In
The Guardian, Max Hastings writes: Students
need to know what sort of dangerous people are out
there
| Protesters
force their way into Oxford Union - How
they do it - the philanthropists who got Tony Blair into
the Unwanted War -
Wealthy
property developer hid real origin of his donations to
Blair's Labour Party: used employees as
frontmen
| BBC
| The
Times
- Pressure
mounts: Evening
Standard: Riot fear
(Irving:
"I do not plan rioting myself")
|
Son
of only recent Brits, Trevor Phillips tells OU to cancel
even now
| Daily
Mail's outrage mounts
| The Observer (London) weeps buckets: Row
as Oxford Union votes to hear
Irving
- Der
Spiegel's spin on this: SPIEGEL ONLINE, 25.11.2007:
Debattierclub
in Oxford: Holocaustleugner auf Podium
eingeladen:
[Politiker sind entsetzt, tausende Bürger
empören sich: Die Oxford Union hat den
Holocaust-Leugner David Irving und den rechtsextremen
Politiker Nick Griffin eingeladen. Trotz massiven
Protestes soll die Veranstaltung Montag über die
Bühne gehen. Die Polizei rechnet mit
Ausschreitungen] | Jewish world: tickets
to the event have sold
out
| Oxford
University in crisis: student
vote was overwhelming: They wanted to hear David Irving
speak
|
- Lipstadt
threw her weight into the voting fray - "No one at the
Union seems to support Irving's
views"
Uh,
no one? |
BBC
report
| Oxford
Mail: defeated opponents now threaten violence on
Monday
- The
Independent: Oxford
votes on whether Irving should address
Union
|
and The
Independent earns a warning letter
- David
Irving, a Radical's Diary: Today
I must drive into London to get a haircut and some balls.
I shall need them for Monday
- Outrage
and uproar at Oxford - debate
rages
- Oxford
Union faces Boycott over David
Irving
- British Defence Secretary and three other lawmakers
cancel appearances at Oxford University's debating
society | Mr
Irving warns Denis McShane, Zionist
MP
- Oxford
Mail:
Union
may cancel event, decision
Friday
| email
your views to Oxford Union
president
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