RT Endorsement

A version of this letter of mine appears in this week's Spectator:

Whenever people launch into one of those tirades against RT, then ask them, or look up, what their position was on the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

That tendency remains incandescent that it has been denied its war against Syria by mere Members of Parliament who ought to know their place.

Such remains the authorised view, even now that we are bombing the very people whom we were supposed to have been aiding last year, and even though we are now prosecuting those who return to this country having gone to fight for the side that our Government was backing at the time that they went.

In September 2013, RT gave me my literal 15 minutes of fame, to talk about the worsening situation on Ascension Island.

There, people who hold full British nationality were and are being gravely mistreated on sovereign British territory, by and on behalf of the security apparatus of a foreign state [this letter was sent before the Torture Report came out, so this part is quite mild].

It is a national disgrace. As is the fact, grateful though I was and am, that only RT has run this story. The BBC has never done so.

Sky News directly refused to do so, because I tried. A former student of mine, who was then on the staff there (he has since moved on), told me to seek psychiatric help, and bizarrely copied his email to former employers of mine, among other people.

Not for the first time, and doubtless not for the last, thank goodness for RT. If you do not like it, then better it. You could start by examining the situation on Ascension Island.