On Sunday, I introduced Stroud’s Holocaust Memorial Day event at Lansdown Hall, and the many excellent speakers, of various faiths and political positions, from the town and the county, on behalf of Community Solidarity Stroud District. Here’s my introductory speech…

A week ago, I went to Newcastle to pay respects and say goodbye to my best friend in primary school from Sunderland days, Phil White.

Phil was, in many ways, the opposite of me; outgoing, sporty, live-in-the-moment to my more cerebral approach to life.

Back in January, I was asked by Community Solidarity Stroud District to introduce a showing, for Holocaust Memorial Day, of the film Denial, starring Rachel Weisz, which is based on Deborah Lipstadt’s book History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier.

I am sharing the speech I wrote today because today is the day that a group in Stroud decided to try and present an event telling the ‘real truth’ behind Hitler…

Two years and a day ago, around 200 people gathered in person on a blazing hot day at Kensal Green cemetery (with more attending online) to say farewell to my father, Michael Horovitz.

Below is the text of what I said on the day…

Diana Lodge’s voice is one of the beautiful memories from my childhood, and I have long wanted to be reminded of it. Diana was a dear friend of my mother’s. They met in the Black Mountains in the late 1960s, up at Capel y Ffin

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