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Last night's Newsnight featured a review of the year with minor celebrities who made me wonder quite how minor a celebrity could be without simply reverting to the status of a normal person.

But entirely unmentioned, throughout the whole thing, was the Skripals nonsense, which was once the biggest story in the world. Funny, that.

Yet today, we learn that it is being revived as the latest excuse to try and shut down RT on British television, as if that would also drive it from the Internet. Programmes such as Going Underground, Sputnik, The Keiser Report, CrossTalk and The Alex Salmond Show are intolerable.

By the way, my only connection to RT is that I have been interviewed on it two or three times, I now forget which, and that no fee was offered. Plus I appeared at George Galloway's invitation in a pilot for a weekly panel-based discussion programme that was to have been hosted by him, but which was never picked up. Indeed, to the best of my knowledge, even the pilot was never broadcast. Again, that never made me a penny.

You see, when it comes to foreign policy and to the architecture of economic policy, Britain does not really have Government policy, subject to political change, at all. Britain has State ideology, which may not be questioned. 

But RT provides a platform for such questioning, so RT has to go, even if the ridiculous Skripals story, which even the BBC is now too embarrassed to mention, has to be pulled out of the woodwork for the purpose.

Another hung Parliament is coming, however, and our people need to hold the balance of power in it. I will stand for this parliamentary seat of North West Durham, if I can raise the £10,000 necessary to mount a serious campaign. Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.