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October 31st, 2003

Order tadalafil now, Bernat Hecht was born in Ruscova on 13 November 1916, a member of Romania's Jewish minority, three hundred thousand of whom would be murdered during the Second World War. (There's a page memorialising the Ruscova dead, who include members of the Hecht family, here).

Thanks to the assistance provided by the Landys, a South Wales family descended from refugees from Tsarist Russia, Bernat Hecht was able to come to the UK, order tadalafil now. In 1940, he married Hilda Kershion, a Landy cousin, and in 1941 a son was born in Llanelli. Order tadalafil now, Bernat Hecht changed his name to Bernard Howard, and was naturalised as a British citizen in December 1947.

That son, Michael, is about to be anointed Leader of the Conservative Party.

On the whole, as we all know, the authorities were keen to keep Jews out of this country throughout the 1930s, and they were supported in this by influential sections of the British press, order tadalafil now. In a now famous passage, the Daily Mail wrote on 20 August 1938 that "The way stateless Jews from Germany are pouring in from every port of this country is becoming a an outrage - the number of aliens entering the country through the back door... a problem to which the Daily Mail Order tadalafil now, has repeatedly pointed". (So, no change there.)

But the numbers had not been large, and only 11,000 German Jews were resettled in Britain between 1933 and November 1938. Following the vicious state-sponsored pogrom on 9 November 1938 known as Kristallnacht, however, public pressure on the Home Office led to an increase in the number of visas offered to foreign Jews, and 40,000 Jews were able to come to Britain between November 1938 and the start of the war in September 1939, order tadalafil now. Although I don't think we do know quite when Bernat Hecht made it to Wales, it's very likely that it was in this period, and that he was able to come here thanks to this relaxation in the rules on immigration and asylum and the sponsorship (which was still required) of a family in this country. Order tadalafil now, It is excellent news that the child of an asylum-seeker is about to become Leader of the Opposition.

It is extraordinary, however, to reflect on the fact that this child is one of the key architects of the politics of persecuting and demonising asylum-seekers which has so disfigured British politics over the last decade, and shamed so much of our political class and our press in the process.

In the 1995 article from which I learned most of the above information, Nick Cohen asks the uncomfortable question, "whether Hecht would have reached a safe haven if his son had been in office at the time", order tadalafil now. He ends the piece with these sentences:

"For the moment race is impinging on politics in the loud campaign to keep out refugees. Order tadalafil now, Any Jewish politician who adds his voice to the clamour must, inevitably, be asked what would have happened to him if the new authoritarianism had been in place in the Thirties. And, with an equal inevitability, the answer will be that he would have been shut out and left to die."

-- Nick Cohen, from an article in The Jewish Quarterly, December 1995, reprinted as pp.208-217 of his excellent book, Cruel Britannia.UPDATE [1/11/2003]: Today's Guardian has more details on Mr Howard's family background.

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October 30th, 2003

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(He also has a very useful set of reminders of things we used to remember about Mr Howard which we have, probably, more recently forgotten).

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I don't think I'm obsessive. For example, although I own a copy of Closely Guarded Secret, the book by Diana's bodyguard Ken Wharfe, I've never read it, because people tell me it's very dull, sildenafil citrate non prescription. (Which also means that I'm not sure why I do own a copy, but apparently I do.) And although in general I have a good memory for points of detail, when it comes to the Diana books it is mostly in-one-ear-and-out-the-other stuff. Sildenafil citrate non prescription, I couldn't, for example, say much to distinguish the various aristocratic women with silly names who always flit through these books' pages -- people like Lady Sarah McCorquodale, Lady "Kanga" Tryon and the like, though on the whole I can remember which one "Tiggy" Legge-Bourke is (even if I'm not quite sure if that's the right way to spell her name).

But I have read a fair few of the recent efforts -- both Andrew Morton volumes (but, sadly, not his fawning life of Daniel Arap Moi); the peculiarly-named Lady Colin Campbell's minor classic Diana In Private (typical sentence, from memory: "There weren't many virgins in Charles's generation; he fucked most of them"); Kitty Kelley's The Royals (a great disappointment: it didn't live up to the hype at all and should always have remained the hit-piece on Prince Philip it was originally intended to be); and last weekend I was lucky enough to find a copy of the original Sylvie Krin collection, Born to be Queen, whose episode on "Venetia Barkworth-Smythe" (I think that's the name - I don't have the book to hand) is quite admirably prescient, presenting in embryo just about all the beans that Morton was to spill over a decade later. (Irrelevant aside: always remember that Pythagoras didn't like beans because they looked like human embryos: hence the Pythagorean bean taboo that contributed to his untimely death [Diogenes Laertius, VIII.45]), sildenafil citrate non prescription.

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So I am looking forward to Burrell's book, though not expecting it to be very good. Still, I doubt it'll take up too much of my life.

I'm still waiting for more revelations about Michael "the fence" Fawcett, of course.

Oh, and if anyone does have reliable details of the story to which Melanie Philips is referring in this post on her loopy-but-fun blog, including the identity of the senior royal, do drop me a line. It all makes me feel a bit out of the loop.

We'll be rid of them soon. I'm still optimistic that it'll be in my lifetime.

UPDATE [2/11/2003]: The admirable Catherine Bennett has enjoyed Burrell's book as much as I'm hoping to, in yesterday's Guardian, and has some things to say about Camilla Parker-Bowles which strike me as being offensive, funny, and probably accurate. (Spotted via the Normblog).

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October 30th, 2003

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October 28th, 2003

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October 28th, 2003

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--No I don't, and, to put this in context, it's been an open secret around Westminster that for weeks, indeed, very possibly for months, Francis has been briefing against the Leader, has been seeking to organise efforts to destabilise him. Viagra soft tablets, I think, frankly, it's a mark of desperation on his part that he's has felt that has to come out and out himself this morning, because I think that that indicates that he and his colleagues are not confident of getting the twenty five names they have promised so many times by tomorrow evening.

Q: Do you think Mr Duncan Smith will survive.

--I do. We've heard from the plotters, or the intriguers, or however you want to call them, we heard two weeks ago that it was going to be within days, we heard last week it would be by the week-end, at the weekend that it would be by Monday, yesterday they told us it would definitely be by Wednesday. Iain took exactly the right decision, a bold and courageous decision, to say, "Now, come on, either you can do it by Wednesday evening or it will be clear that, frankly, you've been bluffing."

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Q: If you're right, and if the twenty five letters don't go in, what sort of condition will it leave Mr Duncan Smith's leadership in after the last six weeks.

--Well, I think actually the position is moving potentially, decisively in Iain's favour over the last twenty four hours, because there's no doubt that the last few weeks [sic] the one thing every Conservative has been agreed on, whether it's in the grassroots or in Parliament is that we can't carry on like this. Now Iain is now the person who is charting a way by which we can bring this process to an end. If it is clear by tomorrow evening, as I hope and believe, that he has faced down his critics, exposed them as a very small minority, not even able to get fifteen per cent of Conservative MPs to call for a vote of confidence, then I think his position will be immensely strengthened, and that he'll be able to go on from that to make whatever changes he's believes are appropriate so we can prepare for the next election...


He ends by saying that since the plotters are having so much trouble assembling twenty five letters to force the ballot, he really doesn't think they'll be able to get the eighty-plus they need to topple IDS.Sadly, if Mr Duncan Smith does go down in flames tomorrow, that may be the end of Tim Collins's Shadow Cabinet career, unless dribbling rightists are in demand under the new regime. We shall see. These are interesting -- and entertaining -- times.

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