
Jeremy Thorpe | Interview | 5
British Scandal
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I Was a Young Man at Heart, and I Survived
I was vilified for 45 years by the press. In those days, press barons, they own papers and they all looked after the establishment. So I was fair game for the press to destroy. The judge in that trial is one of the most shocking elements of this whole story. He truly had no idea of the 20th century. You know what biscuits were? I don't know. But I mean, how appalling. He was a man doing, you know, one of the biggest trials of the century. It was so horrible. They chose him because he was so unaware of real life when Carmen was giving some sort of lecture to the jury. And he said, oh,
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