A one-man dad's army

From: The Spectator | Date: July 19, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

THE OUTCASTS' OUTCAST: A BIOGRAPHY OF LORD LONGFORD. by Peter Stanford. Sutton Publishing, L20.00, pp. 512. ISBN 0750932481

It isn't good manners for somebody to criticise a great-uncle after his death, but I know from first-hand experience that my great-uncle, Lord Longford, either didn't mind criticism or at least grew so used to it that he looked like he didn't mind.

After he appeared in an Oxford Union debate in the early 1990s attacking the porn industry, I asked him whether he minded the tactics of his opponent, a pornfilm director. The director had tried to ridicule him by offering him ...

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