Bye, Eck

Alex Salmond was right about almost everything apart from the cause to which he devoted his political life, and it was the people who agreed with him about that alone who tried to imprison him for what would have been the rest of his natural life. They belong behind bars.

But such allegations are a routine tactic of neoliberal neoconservatives, who are still trying to suggest that there was something in the ones that they simply made up against Julian Assange. And as soon as Cornel West announced his Presidential candidacy on Russell Brand's Rumble channel, then even Brand became a marked man. Yet well over a year since "the documentary of the decade", no arrest has been made.

Recall the interviewees on The Alex Salmond Show, as also on Sputnik and on Going Underground. The ones from or about abroad were objectionable enough to our betters, but the ones from and about real life in the real Britain were intolerable to them. If Sky News really is in as much trouble as is being suggested, then Freeview's channel 233 should be taken over by a station on which George Galloway and Afshin Rattansi could take up where they had been forced to leave off, with plenty more in similar vein. It is only sad that Salmond would not be able to be among them.