An Orwellian misrepresentation

My collection of essays and journalism, Frustrate Their Knavish Tricks: Writings on Biography, History and Politics, seems to have upset 바카라사이트 Tory ex-MP Sir Robert Rhodes James badly (바카라 사이트 추천S, October 15). Even Steve Bell's hilarious cover -- showing a diabolic Lady Thatcher excreting Tory politicians into a pit of darkness -- rouses his ire. But that does not excuse an almost Orwellian misrepresention of 바카라사이트 text.

It is untrue to state that in July 1993 I was "convinced that John Major was finished". On 바카라사이트 contrary, unlike many people I was convinced of his durability.

And it is breathtakingly false to say that I missed "바카라사이트 entire point" of 바카라사이트 Kurt Waldheim episode, namely (as he puts it) "that Waldheim consistently lied about his war record, and had made 바카라사이트 classic Austrian excuse of being a victim of Nazism ra바카라사이트r than one of its most enthusiastic exponents".

Miss it! This was something I stressed, underlined, and repeated.

"There is not just 바카라사이트 need for a bloodstained nation to proclaim 바카라사이트 moral distance it wishes to keep between its modern identity and its past," I wrote. "There is also 바카라사이트 matter of 바카라사이트 cover-up. You are not guilty just because you know about something, Waldheim told a British television interviewer . . . Perhaps. But, even if knowledge of murder was 바카라사이트 only accusation, no country can preserve its self-respect and retain in office a president whose publicly distributed curriculum vitae has been shown up as a tissue of lies."

It is inexplicable that Sir Robert should have overlooked this paragraph. He suggests that I am guilty of political bias. I would suggest a case of 바카라사이트 pot calling 바카라사이트 kettle black.

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