“But here's old Ken - he's been crass, he's been insensitive and thuggish and brutal in his language - but I don't think actually if you read what he said, although it was extraordinary and rude, I don't think he was actually anti-Semitic.”

"Quotes of the Day", The Times, 18 February 2005, p. 2.
2000s, 2005

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