An undercover reporter for the Grauniad managed to infiltrate the BNP. Some highlights of his report here, here and here.

As an added bonus - since it comes up on the same page and i don't have to search far - here is the Grauniad's take on Irving's early release: . Oh yeah, and he's back in Britain. How delightful.

Apparently David Irving's flight back to the UK has been delayed by fog at Vienna airport. While i'm thrilled that we have to wait a while to get him back, i pity the Austrians having to hang on to him for that bit longer than planned. Too much to hope for, i suppose, that his plane does an impromptu detour via Israel...

Coming across David Irving and his ilk on the internet is like driving past an accident. You don't want to look, know you will be horrified by what you see, but it is difficult nonetheless to tear your eyes away. I won't link his site because quite frankly i don't want to appear on his referral stats, but should you wish to see it the domain is eff pee pee .co.uk. (say it out loud. Come on, even antifascists are allowed to be puerile sometimes...)

Anyway, for your viewing pleasure, i reproduce here some advice given by Irving to children of 10 and 11 who have contacted him asking for advice on school projects. Nice to see that such a busy man can take time out of whining about the Chief Rabbi peeing on his lawn or whatever (seriously, it does pretty much stoop to that level at times) in order to mess with young folks' minds. So here goes:

I want you to be very, very careful about what you do, say, and write about these things -- the world is full of evil people, who will upset and harass you for the rest of your life if they suspect that you are thinking for yourself and not believing all that they tell you. So it is often necessary to keep to yourself the things you find out and believe.

I HAVE no interest whatever in the commercial package now marketed as The Holocaust. I find it boring.

Don't you find it odd, shameful even, that "In 8th grade students are required to learn about the Holocaust and Anne Frank's Diary"? Doesn't that smack of propaganda?

And best of all:
Fortunately these "eye witnesses" are dying out, and documents will take over, and the Holocaust legend will have a harder time surviving.

These are such perfect gems of bullshit that i can't bring myself to despoil them by adding commentary. I may, however, have to go and wash my hands and administer eyedrops as a result of having read and pasted them. (choice of icon is due to needing to gaze upon fluffy ducks as an antidote, mmkay...)

And this ain't one of them.

You see? You get antifascist commentary and my sense of humour in one short post. You like it really.

Google News roundup.

Grauniad

Torygraph (amazingly unsupportive of Irving, for them)

Times news story
Times on alleged backlash
Irving's twin brother, who works for a racial equality group - no i'm not making this up - doubts Irving's sincerity in retracting some of his worse statement. I wonder why.

From this last story, my 'favourite' quote yet - I’m unhappy with the way that the Holocaust legend is packaged . . . When you give a word a capital H then it begins to look like some kind of brand name that’s been very slickly packaged and marketed’
Lecture given in New Zealand in 1993
Look fuckface, i hate branding as much as the next person, but please. Just crawl off somewhere and die.

And from my more usual sources:

Libcom News

So far i haven't found anything in my usual neck of the blogosphere. Let me know if you see any good entries, and i'll link them. (the SPD collective are already being closely monitored...)

Likewise, Irving's own site is being remarkably quiet. Heh.

Edited to add This piece from the International Herald Tribune in which our charming historian asks a Holocaust survivor how much his allegedly new-looking tattoo cost. Lovely. :-/

This comes into the category of things that have to be seen to be believed. (Totally worksafe. As if DK would link to anything that wasn't.)

In other news, Holocaust denier David Irving is hoping that liberals and the left will jump to his defence in the name of free speech. No David, we'll just wait until you're safely banged up and deny it ever happened. :)

Plus, a Google search for David Irving yields the wonderful offer to 'buy David Irving DVDs at the best price'. Might pass on that one. Particularly if they offer a cartoon version of that nursery rhyme...

Not, unfortunately, on trial proceedings. Just that a google search for 'David Irving nursery rhyme' (inspired by endless publicity about King Kong, most recently on Boondocks, which reminds me of it.) revealed that his tendency is/was to recite his charming little rhyme in the street. Crap, anyone who thought their parents were embarassing may have to rethink that. I can only reiterate my hope that his daughter grows up to do everything he speaks against in the rhyme. (I also now hope to get the damn thing out of my system, where it has been since DK first posted it.)

"I am a Baby Aryan …I have no plans to marry an Ape or Rastifarian."

Rhyme composed by the historian David Irving for his young daughter. (courtesy of DK)
One can only hope the girl in question grows up to mate with the rebellious offspring of a Nation of Islam member and they go and raise their own children in a kibbutz.
At any rate, whatever i think of the judicial and penal systems in general, i can't help being happy that this scumbag is finally going to get something of what he deserves. I can't help wishing that he'd been arrested somewhere where he'd get slightly more of what he deserved. You can probably think of as many ideas as i can on that score.
Like DK, however, i'm disappointed to see that the press are taking the 'persecuted for being controversial' line. Oh please. I fully intend to be controversial during my forthcoming career. In my field it is practically compulsory to be so. But there is a difference between expressing an unpopular sentiment (yes, even 'smash the state') and covering up for genocide. So please don't tell me to stick up for this fucker in the name of free speech or anything like it, because your plea will fall on deaf ears. (By the way, i'm glad his opinions are controversial. I never want to live in a culture where they are anything but. Just try to understand that controversy in itself is not the main reason why Irving is getting the shit he is.)