Prior To Each Insertion?

When the Daily Telegraph published the MPs' expenses, then it published what it knew to be stolen Government information, information for which, in that knowledge, it had paid.

The Guardian acquired its American audience, and found itself garlanded with honours, when it reproduced the revelations of Julian Assange.

And so on.

The likes of The Guardian, The New York Times, Channel 4 News and the BBC swapped sides only when the line became that Wikileaks had had a part in the defeat of Hillary Clinton.

Notice that the previously dropped charge of rape in Sweden has been revived. Sweden defines rape as pretty much anything that a woman claims, with no real defence possible, and the prosecutor in this case was particularly zealous even within that. 

Yet even she had been unable to make anything stick to Assange, despite all the resources available to her through what amounted to the CIA puppet states in Scandinavia, never mind in Britain and Australia.

In any case, so what? Even if Assange were a murderer, then he would be highly unlikely to have murdered as many people as George Bush, or Tony Blair, or David Cameron, or John Howard, to name but a few.

There is no evidence against him in Sweden, and what was alleged against him there would not have been illegal almost anywhere else, including here. It has already had to be dropped once.

But what if he were indeed guilty of what would have been, after all, a crime where he did it? Would we extradite adulterers or homosexuals to Brunei?

And there would still be no way of suggesting, either that bad sexual etiquette was worse than the crimes that he had exposed, or that bad sexual etiquette was worse than the exposure of those crimes.

Another hung Parliament is coming, however, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it.

It has become a local commonplace that I am on 30-30-30 with Labour and the Conservatives here at North West Durham, so that any one of us could be the First Past the Post. 

I will stand for this seat, if I can raise the £10,000 necessary to mount a serious campaign. Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.