Far Beyond Personal Honour

If the lockdown had been imposed one week earlier, then the number of deaths in England would have been almost halved. A week before the lockdown, to torrential ridicule and abuse, an MP was calling for it. Can you guess who? I'll give you a clue, it was not Zarah Sultana.

Nor was it Lloyd Russell-Moyle, defender of the Israeli pager attack on Lebanon, and self-proclaimed but uncorrected Green Party candidate for his own former seat of Brighton Kemptown, which the Greens are highly likely to win. Green councillors vote for austerity, while their party's "environmental" taxes and fines would or do push people into, or further into, poverty. And their voters were only marginally more likely than Reform UK's to be vaccinated against Covid-19, making them far less so than supporters of the other parties.

I spent three months of the lockdown in prison, much of it sharing a cell, for at least 23 and a half hours of every day, with an anti-vaxxer. Unless you can see that or raise it, then I win. Speaking both of Reform and of prison, and while it is not as if he would serve all of it inside, 10 and a half years is quite a stretch for reading out a couple of scripts in the European Parliament, especially after having pleaded guilty. There are men doing less than that for having pleaded not guilty to GBH and drug dealing, let me assure you. Did any of Nathan Gill's actions ever change anything? But of course Gill had to be given something. The obvious line would be "Now do Israel". Now do Israel.

Gill's offences were committed before the invasion of Ukraine, never mind the impending conclusion of that war. It is only because Britain has so attached itself to the defeated regime of Volodymyr Zelensky, a regime the extreme corruption of which not even London's court media can any longer ignore, that Russia now regards this country as its principal enemy other than that regime. Yes, Russia is also extremely corrupt. We are not supporting Russia. Next up, the Western media will remember the Nazi problem in Ukraine, which until 24 February 2022 they used to cover as something downright quaint and positively picturesque. This very day, even the BBC has discovered the Israeli-backed Islamist militias in Gaza, and the similarities between their cultivation and the emergence of Hamas.

Between the Covid-19 Inquiry and the outcome in Ukraine, we may hope to have heard the last of Boris Johnson. And we may have done, pretty much. But that would not mean that he had gone away. He has always done breathtakingly well at distracting attention from his own Russian connections, and his entourage is merrily taking over the party that is consistently ahead in the polls.