In our interview he turned out to be a hypocrite too. Historians – real historians – regard Irving as a dangerous charlatan. I pointed out that he was suing her to deny Professor Lipstadt's freedom of speech. I ended up interviewing Irving for the BBC where he protested that suing Professor Lipstadt was a matter of his freedom of speech. When he was discredited as a Holocaust denier, he sued Professor Deborah Lipstadt who had debunked his false account. Irving famously falsified the historical account from documents to – in essence – exculpate Hitler from the Holocaust.
Was there some new kind of Zoom rules that needed to be kept? On my next Zoom call the presenter of a podcast asked if I had “any embarrassing material on my bookshelves.” On the Gove-Vine shelves were a couple of texts labelled by the Book Police as unwise, including one by the discredited historian David Irving. Coronavirus: Here's the secret sauce to revive the global economyĪ British Cabinet minister Michael Gove, married to a newspaper columnist, Sarah Vine, were pilloried on social media for the content of their bookshelves.
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