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3 Oct, 5 tweets, 2 min read
My quest to source the still-unsourced Clive James line about convicts and police officers continues. We have a new entry: @NickBryantNY's new SMH piece. "It was then that the words of Clive James came to mind..." What follows is a direct quote. Do you have a source, Nick?
Cc. @bencubby
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4 Oct
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, a thread. I put it to you that a great rabble of opinion writers, especially on the right, in the interest of criticising Australia's lockdown policies, have magically and mindlessly transformed Sir Peter Ustinov into Clive James.
On 12 September 1978, Peter Ustinov spoke at the National Press Club of Australia, where he told the following story. This is an extract from the the 2014 book STAND AND DELIVER: FIFTY YEARS OF THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB OF AUSTRALIA. books.google.com.au/books?id=J-4xB…
For what it's worth, the comment was also reported in the Sydney TRIBUNE's '1 Minute Parking' column on 20 September 1978.
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4 Oct
I may have cracked it. On 24 August last year, a few days before the first (rather mangled) direct quotation attributed to James appeared on the RT website, @cjsnowdon tweeted that he *thought* it was James who had said it.
This is one of the responses to that tweet.
This appears to be correct. search.informit.org/doi/abs/10.331…
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