980 results from the 2000s

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A Radical’s Diary: March 5, 2002

Before leaving to Heathrow I mail to the Australian High Commission my comments on their letter of January 17, as requested. Let's see what reason they can find now to…

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A Radical’s Diary: April 5, 2002

I SPEND all morning slumped in front of a sofa, wallowing in memories of the last century as I watch on television the ceremonial procession carrying the Queen Mother's coffin…

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A Radical’s Diary: April 9, 2002

Queen Mother's funeral this morning. Solemn music on the radio, and TV. Again the spectacle of bands, Guardsmen, etc., is spoiled by the endlessly chattering commentators telling us what we…

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A Radical’s Diary: June 10, 2002

I HEAR that the forger Peter Stahl -- the novelist "Gregory Douglas" -- has launched a new website [see box on right] devoted to smearing his critics.

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A Radical’s Diary: August 11, 2002

NO phone service, must have been a storm during the night. Breakfast at Rusty Anchor. Later: Phone seems to have been off the hook upstairs for hours: the cottage has…

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A Radical’s Diary: February 12, 2002

I DRIVE the twenty miles or so out to Brentwood in Essex, getting stupidly distracted on the last roundabout and finding myself doing a ten mile detour up the A-12…

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A Radical’s Diary: March 12, 2002

I AM stuck here for a few more days, sorting out the commercial problems caused by the paperwork requirements of the new Patriot Act. To get a cellphone, it turns…

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A Radical’s Diary: October 14, 2002

AN e-mail from Gary Redish, the unpalatable Jewish lawyer in New Jersey, who has been constantly sending me, for two years or more, offensive hate e-mails, then pleading with me…

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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: April 16, 2002

HORRIFYING pictures are spread across the front pages all major British newspapers today of the destruction inflicted by the Israeli invaders on the Palestinian village of Jenin.

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A Radical’s Diary: July 16, 2002

My Counsel phones from London at my request. Discussion of the final wallop, and raising the modest funds needed to punch it through; they are needed in two stages --…

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A Radical’s Diary: June 18, 2002

SOMEBODY emails me at 8:25 a.m., "I saw the awful news in the newspapers today. I am very sorry to see your courage and integrity so foully dealt with and…

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A Radical’s Diary: March 21, 2002

A pleasing end to my brief stay in the United States is the arrival in Key West of the April edition of The Atlantic Monthly, one of the country's premier…

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A Radical’s Diary: October 21, 2002

IN the mail I find a letter from The Bookseller, which has been urging us for several years to advertise (we have advertised in their pages several times in the…

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A Radical’s Diary: July 23, 2002

SOMEBODY sends me a review of my book Uprising, which appeared in an obscure Hungarian journal eighteen months ago. I shall have to say "obscure", as it is my only…

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