Do Not Let It Lie

I doubt that CapX pays much, if anything. So I enjoy the fact that He Who Must Not Be Named is now mostly published there. 

His latest offering is one of his tantrums about RT UK, which has an audience of a size of which The Times can now only dream and CapX never could or will. He decrees that aspiring journalists should have nothing to do with it, presumably for fear of being denied future Times work for poverty pay and a few thousand readers, or future CapX work for no pay and practically no readers.

Watch Going Underground, or Sputnik, or Renegade Inc., or Keiser Report, or The Alex Salmond Show, and tell me where else any of those contributors would be given a hearing. Times Radio? Well, there you are, then. Other than the Morning Star, which RT's detractors also despise and deride, where else would publish this vitally important piece by Lisa McKenzie?

Of course, He Who Must Not Be Named does not want such material to be published, or such people to be given a hearing. It still frightens the life out of him that at last year's General Election, all of 10,000 people voted for Change UK, while 10 million voted for Jeremy Corbyn for the second time, and very nearly 14 million voted for a party whose slogan was Get Brexit Done. 

This week, that also became the de facto slogan even of Keir Starmer, although he does have rather a peculiar definition of Brexit as remaining subject to the State Aid rules of Margaret Thatcher's Single Market. Hey, ho, another weekend, another Conservative lead in the opinion polls. He Who Must Not Be Named and his kind are very scared and very angry

Their concern for free journalism does not extend to Julian Assange. And as for lying on behalf of State interests, on 12th March 2018, it was announced on the front page of The Times that Sergei Skripal was dead. The Times is financially dependent on The Sun, which is of Hillsborough infamy. The BBC has Orgreave. And so on. Before we even start about Iraq. Keep saying it. Iraq. Iraq, Iraq, Iraq, Iraq, Iraq.