![]() ![]() It's very sunny, and we're in a fancy hotel in Aldwych, in the middle of London. I explain that people don’t know about her collection and can just see one, contextless, UFF mug, and to some Irish Catholics this is like displaying a KKK mug. Later she again expresses her disbelief that people are offended. For anyone to imagine that I supported violent loyalism is ridiculous and displays an utter failure to have read anything I have written about Northern Irish politics or about terrorism generally.” For that to be taken seriously is absurd. “I consider them all comical and ludicrous. The mug is part of a collection of paramilitary mugs she owns, a collection "that is perfectly balanced in terms of sectarian preference". ![]() Shriver spent 12 years in Belfast and has identified herself as a unionist but has never, she says, supported loyalist terrorists such as the UFF. The day I meet Shriver she is planning to write a Spectator article to put the record straight. There exists online a newspaper photograph of the American novelist Lionel Shriver and her husband, the jazz drummer Jeff Williams, sitting behind a coffee table on which sits an Ulster Freedom Fighters mug. ![]()
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