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I’ve always intended to write a proper diary for the website, so, of course, since the best – as we all know – is the enemy of the good, I’ve written nothing.
What I might be able to keep up is a brief professional diary: this will include not just the events I’m formally speaking at, but work-related events I attend and in which I often participate.
At least it will indicate something of the spread of my interests. Here goes since May – in London unless otherwise stated...
For the time being, Ruth is staying at home as much as possible to finish her book on the civil case against the Omagh bombers. However, she was in Belfast for the beginning of the Omagh case and will be attending much of it.
JUNE 2008
| 5–8.06.2008:
*NEWSFLASH*
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CrimeFest, Bristol
Murdering Americans won the Last Laugh award at CrimeFest!
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APRIL 2008
| 25–27.04.2008: |
Crime Writers’ Annual Conference
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MARCH 2008
| 15.03.2008: |
Debate at Cambridge Irish Society
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DECEMBER 2007
NOVEMBER 2007
| 01.11.2007: |
Dublin service for Anthony Clare
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| 08.11.2007: |
Launch party for Daniel Johnson's White King and Red Queen: how the cold war was fought on the chessboard.
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| 13.11.2007: |
Culture Clash: discussion on My Boy Jack and Elizabeth: the Golden Age |
| 20.11.2007: |
Interview with AH Ali
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| 26.11.2007: |
Institute of Contemporary Arts - On panel discussing the press - 'Silencing the truth'
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OCTOBER 2007
| 08.10.2007: |
Talk by Ibn Warraq at the Centre for Social Cohesion
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| 17.10.2007: |
Policy Exchange, Paul Bew, speaking about the theme of his Ireland: The Politics of Enmity 1789-2006
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| 18.10.2007: |
Social Affairs Unit, Panel discussion, 'Do Magazines matter?:
The New Criterion at 25', with Anthony Daniels, Roger Kimball, Kenneth Minogue, Eric Ormsby and David Pryce-Jones
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| 19.10.2007: |
Launch party for Piers Brendon's The Decline and Fall of the British Empire
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| 26–28.10.2007: |
Muncie, Indiana: Magna cum Murder.
Ruth will be interviewing Lindsey Davis and appearing with Troy Cook, Denise Dietz, Honora Finkelstein, Susan Smily, Bill Fitzhugh and Parnell Hall on 'The Humor Panel' and will be the moderator of the panel on Political Correctness and Criminal Acts' (members: Bill Fitzhugh, Charlotte Hays, Heather Jeeves and John O'Sullivan). My friend John O'Sullivan on Magna cum Murder
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SEPTEMBER 2007
| 04.09.2007: |
Policy Exchange: Launch of Islam in Australia: Democratic bipartisanship in action, by Gerard Henderson; panel, Gerard Henderson, H.E. Richard Alston, the Australian High Commissioner in London; the Rt. Hon. David Maclean MP; Khalid Mahmood MP; Councillor Fiyaz Mughal; Haras Rafiq; and the Rt. Hon. John Spellar MP |
| 13.09.2007: |
Interview on Ronnie Biggs on the John Gaunt Show on Talk Sport
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| 18.09.2007: |
Launch party for Murdering Americans, London |
| 24.09.2007: |
Launch party for Murdering Americans, Belfast |
| 27–30.09.2007: |
Bouchercon 2007, Anchorage, Alaska. On panel chaired by Laurie King, with Charles Benoit, Stephen Booth and Sharan Newman, to discuss why on earth we put our characters on earth. Read Ruth's Buchercon diary from The Irish Times |
AUGUST 2007
| 06.08.2007: |
Policy Exchange: Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan, Premier of the Azad Government of the State of Jammu and Kashmir |
| 07.08.2007: |
BBC, ‘You and Yours’, on panel with Lord (Roy) Hattersley, G.P. Taylor and Julia Unwin, discussing contemporary social evils. |
| 14.08.2007: |
CWA London chapter meeting |
| 16.08.2007: |
Policy Exchange: Why has Channel 4’s “Undercover Mosque” programme been referred to Ofcom? |
| 20.08.2007: |
08.20 BBC World Service: debate on multiculturalism and diversity in London |
| 20.08.2007: |
17.00 Epilogue, Press TV: discussion of Melanie Phillips’s Londonistan |
| 21.08.2007: |
20.30 Culture Clash: discussion of TV fakes and the controversy about Undercover Mosque |
| 27.08.2007: |
Interview on Ireland's Today FM on the issue of turbans being banned for gardai |
JULY 2007
| 05.07.2007: |
Crime Writers Association Annual Dinner and awards ceremony, Four Seasons Hotel |
| 08.07.2007: |
New Culture Forum Party |
| 16.07.2007: |
Policy Exchange "Counter Terrorism after the London and Glasgow Attacks : What Legislation Do We Need Now?" |
| 17.07.2007: |
Heffers, Cambridge: Bodies in the Bookshop 2007: get-together of writers and readers |
| 21–22.07.2007: |
Festival of Ideas 2007, Sedbergh: on panel with John Harris, Sir Bernard Crick and Greg Rosen, discussing ‘Blair: The Record; Brown: The Prospects’ |
JUNE 2007
| 01–02.06.2007: |
Goldsmith International Literary Festival, Ballymahon, Co Longford, Ireland: on panel chaired by Dave O’Connell, with Brian Lenihan TD and Paddy O’Gorman, discussing ‘Multicultural Ireland – Is there a limit to tolerance?’ |
| 19.06.2007: |
More 4 News discussing the knighthood of Salman Rushdie with A.L. Kennedy and host Kylie Morris |
| 24.06.2007: |
Talk to the St Alban’s Chapter of the Crime Writers’ Association on ‘Domestic Terrorism’ |
| 27.06.2007: |
Quercus party for Elena Forbes’s Die with me |
MAY 2007
01.05.2007:
8.00 pm |
Culture Clash, Peter Whittle’s weekly programme on Talk TV at 18 Doughty Street (www.18doughtystreet.com), on panel discussing the films ‘The Lives of Others’ and ‘Fast Food Nation’ |
01.05.2007:
9.45 pm |
‘Nightwaves’ on BBC Radio 3, discussing Robert Maxwell with Simon Jenkins |
| 04-06.05.2007: |
Malice Domestic, Arlington, Virginia: On panel chaired by Roberta Rogow with Diana Killian, Louise Penny and Anne White, discussing ‘There’s nothing wrong with tradition’ |
| 09.05.2007: |
Reception at the Savoy in London for the award of the Crime Writers’ Association Cartier Diamond Dagger to John Harvey |
| 23.05.2007: |
New Culture Forum discussion led by Sir Andrew Green of Migrationwatch: ‘The immigration debate: driven by events or by the media?’ |
| 30.05.2007 |
Henry Jackson Society and Centre for Social Cohesion: meeting with Dr Wafa Sultan on ‘Islam and the West’ |
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