Tuesday 3 November 2009

LRB editor on Gareth Peirce article

[What follows is an excerpt from an interview in The Third Estate with senior editor Paul Myerscough of the London Review of Books.]

But what happens when Gareth Peirce writes about the Al [Megrahi] case for us? [She] publishes [her] essay and you think my God, this surely has to be answered at some level ― and nothing happens. The Independent reprinted it in entirety, but it just doesn’t make the same sort of impact. You want to cry that it doesn’t, because in a sense the case [she’s] presenting is so extraordinary that it can’t be addressed in a culture in which there’s consensus: every time Al Megrahi is referred to he is the Lockerbie Bomber ― and that’s in news sources. So what happens when you have piece that says he didn’t do it, actually it was someone else? You can’t really expect that to be picked up at ― except that it’s Gareth Peirce, the most respected defence solicitor on miscarriages of justice this country has. So I think you have grounds to influence whoever by publishing it. All you can really do is put these things into the public sphere and hope that they get picked up. Very often it doesn’t happen.

2 comments:

  1. If everyone concerned has managed to ignore Hans Kochler for the past eight years, not to mention Robert Black, what hope does Gareth Pierce have?

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