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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