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Apr 30, 2007
Quickie Link: Green, But Not Peaceful: Interview With Peter Tatchell
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By vanrozenheim
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A decade ago, following his threat to out gay bishops and MPs, Tatchell was a hate figure for the right-wing press. Then, thanks to his attempts to "arrest" Robert Mugabe, in London in 1999 and Brussels in 2001, he suddenly became a hero. But what no one, in the media anyway, can quite bring themselves to do is take him seriously. Just as the New Statesman, which ought to be on his side, could not bear to print his vision of a world of peace and harmony, so the announcement last week that he was to be the Green party's candidate in Oxford East at the next election attracted waggish derision.
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