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: June 28, 2002
The "Adolf Hitler" portrait the protestor saw was actually a lifesized painting of Winston Churchill, the jacket of Mr Irving's book (below)
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I HAVE been working on the jacket of the new edition of Hitler's War, which comes off the presses at the end of February. There are serious technical problems, in…
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I DRIVE Jessica to school; she recites to me Shakespeare's sonnet, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? Today is Poetry Day at school.
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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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Still no ISP access. . . I write to Harry Mazal, who otherwise has little to commend him:
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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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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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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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Copenhagen. The last time I was in this city was in 1965, when I took a train through it, and no more, to interview Colonel Knut Haukelid for The Virus…
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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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I SPEND the morning on cheque-book stubs and calculations; seems like we may just squeak through this month.
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AT ten a.m. the BBC television starts live coverage of the closing submissions (speeches) by Counsel in the Hutton Inquiry. I settle down with a cup of tea and watch…
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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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FROM 11 a.m. to 1:30 pm I have a first meeting at the Sheraton with Don S., who is an art dealer and expert. Don is now aged 77; he…
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I HAVE been sent by an anonymous reader horrifying screen-shots taken from poor quality videos showing people in American army camouflage uniform seemingly committing a number of sexual acts on…
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A "Don" has written to me: "My son-in-law has a photo album which we believe was Adolph Hitler's personal album. Can you recommend where he could get it appraised. We…
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TEMPERATURE this morning about zero, bright sun. Today, 12:30 p.m., is the first court day in the Lipstadt application to be given all my possessions.
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AN INCORRIGIBLE friend writes overnight from Nevada apologizing for having got it wrong: "I prophesied that your $1,000 reward offer would never be published.
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THE Danish press carries articles about my forthcoming visit to speak in Copenhagen. My local friends inform me these have caused quite an uproar. "Some people want to have you…
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