Saturday 31 October 2020

How We Got Here

Boris Johnson was not so much wafted as shoehorned into the Premiership by a coterie of Fleet Street stalwarts.

Those affect to be of the libertarian Right, but in reality they are just contrary for the sake of it, for a laugh, as a public school lark.

To please their character acts, the lockdown was imposed too late, it was lifted too early, and now here we are.

Still In The Race

23 today, a Very Happy Birthday to Marcus Rashford. Who needs the Labour Party? It would not be advocating free school meals in the holidays if it had not been for Rashford. Nor would it be providing them if it were in government. If Tony Blair had remained Prime Minister only a little longer, then even free school meals in termtime would have been abolished.

Labour is now led by a man who has devoted his professional life to covering up the murders in custody of young black men who had been arrested precisely for their youth and their colour. In recent days, we have seen the return of the fanciful delusion that anti-racism was one of Labour's "core values". But in reality, anti-racist activists have only ever regarded the Labour Party as the best of a very bad lot, and they have frankly described Jeremy Corbyn as the only anti-racist Leader that it had ever had, so that he would have been "the United Kingdom's first anti-racist Prime Minister". Even then, it was under Corbyn that Jackie Walker and Marc Wadsworth were expelled.

I was older than 23 when the Labour Party refused to hold a selection meeting for a District Council seat because I would have won it. Although if age were indeed the real reason, then I seem to have been only one school year short, since, while the parliamentary staffer who was imposed without any formal process had been in the year ahead of me at school, we had been born in the same calendar year. It must have been something else, then, mustn't it?

That staffer failed to win the seat, and he took a distinguished sitting Councillor down with him. Like me, he has still never been elected to anything above Parish level. Unlike me, he has never again tried to be. I am a declared and active Independent candidate for the parliamentary seat of North West Durham at the next General Election, as I was at the last one. Please give generously.

Poison Berger

We all know about people with carefully cultivated reputations for niceness, and Luciana Berger is probably the worst of the lot. 

That Keir Starmer telephoned Berger on Thursday morning with advance notice of the EHRC reports contents, as if she had not already known them, is grounds for his expulsion from the Labour Party. Or does he maintain such relations with everyone who was a Liberal Democrat candidate at last years General Election? That, of course, would be even stronger such grounds.

Berger has been known to shout her mouth off about me because I refer most casually to the common knowledge about how she was given the safe Labour seat of Liverpool Wavertree, namely as a reward for having had sex with Tony Blair's eldest son, admittedly a high price to have had to pay.

Well, Berger had no previous connection to Liverpool, so her lack of any connection to County Durham, beyond being a great-niece of Manny Shinwells, ought to present no obstacle to her contesting North West Durham as a Lib Dem in 2024. I am a declared and active Independent candidate for that seat. Please give generously.

Bergers not uncontroversial accession to the Lib Dems was a key moment in the process that is now approaching completion, namely the most successful coup in Britain since 1688. Now, coups are the norm in Britain. It is vanishingly rare to become, rather than to remain, Prime Minister by leading a political party to an overall majority at a General Election. That last happened in 1997, having then last happened as long as 1979. But this is something else.

A foreign, and not even particularly friendly, state has pushed opinions that were well within the mainstream of all parties five and half years ago, so that they were always represented at every level of each of them, to the point where they are incompatible with mere membership of any party, and well on the way to full criminalisation. 

That criminalisation would not even require any formal change in the law. The dear old Crown Prosecution Service would just have to decide that any breach of the racist IHRA Definition was already racist, and that would be that.

All of this is in order to prevent any discussion of the possibility of economic equality and international peace through the democratic political control of the means to those ends. To admit of that possibility is now not only to be an anti-Semite by definition, but also, within the Labour Party, to be an entryist. 

You may have been a Labour MP for 37 years, but a man who could not have been a member of any party eight years ago is entitled to call you an entryist and to kick you out for it. He may do that even though, in his official capacity as the Leader of the Labour Party, he is in close touch with at least one recent Lib Dem parliamentary candidate.

Labour has chosen to be the party of an economic and social liberalism that the use of soft power where possible but hard power where necessary had made unquestionable at home, so that the use of soft power where possible but very hard power where necessary could spread it across the whole wide earth by means of an unquestionable alliance between the European Union and the United States, an alliance with Britain at both its cultural and its military heart. 

And Labour has chosen to be the party of Thatcher’s Daughters, the public sector middle-class women who had been turned into the ruling class by the changes to the British economy since the Callaghan Government’s turn to monetarism in December 1976.

No one could encapsulate this more perfectly that Berger, and the Lib Dems have done themselves no credit by admitting her to membership. On the contrary, by so doing, they have made the same choice as Labour has, and they made it earlier. They need to consider her membership in light of her close relationship with Starmer.

But just as the Labour candidate at North West Durham is going to be the present Leader of Durham County Council, or else he is too frightened to face me, so the Lib Dem candidate is going to be Berger, or else she is also too frightened to face me. And in that case, then she should never say another word about me.

Suicide Watch: Day Seven

The two of you who are planning to drag me back to court, you took one hell of a beating yesterday, when you were forced to beg for an adjournment because, with well under a week before I had been supposed to stand trial, you still had no case. None. At all.

And I am still here. What you really want is for me to commit suicide, which strongly suggests that you have been successful in that regard in the past. One of you has already spent nearly 20 years trying to bring about my death by my own hand. Every time that either of you sends the Police round, or what have you, then that is the intention.

But that will never be the effect. You have met your match in me, and you need to remember that while I am not permitted to name you here, you would be named in court if you pursued me there. You would be named in court as having tried to drive a man to suicide. Would that be good for business? Would that be good for political advancement? Would the Church see that as good for the Church? Think on.

This post will appear daily while you continued your doomed campaign to force me to take my own life. Each of you has clearly succeeded in forcing other people to take their own lives. But I say again, to each and both of you, that you have met your match in me. As one of you ought to have worked out a long time ago.

CPS Watch: Day Seven

Keir Starmer's Crown Prosecution Service does not deny that it is an enforcement agency of the right-wing Labour machine, and that its behaviour towards me at every point has proved that conclusively, as that behaviour continues to do.

The CPS does not deny that it corrupted the jury at my trial, and that it would do the same to any jury, or to any bench of magistrates, that might try me in future. If I were ever to be convicted of anything again, then that point would be proved.

The Director of Public Prosecutions, Max Hill, does not dispute that he knows me to be innocent of the offences with which he has charged me.

His predecessor, Alison Saunders, does not dispute that she has always known me to have been innocent of the offences with which she charged me and arranged to have me convicted.

Saunders, Hill and the CPS do not dispute that they have persecuted me, and that they continue to do so, purely in order to advance their professional, political and social lives on and around the right wing of the Labour Party.

And Saunders, Hill and the CPS do not dispute that, since I am nothing special, they are certainly doing this to dozens of other people at any given time.

This post will appear daily until there is any change in the above circumstances. I am a declared and active candidate for the parliamentary seat of North West Durham at the next General Election. Please give generously.

My imprisonment prior to the next General Election would make me the First Past the Post, just as my conviction prior to the last one would have saved my deposit. My enemies need to think on.

Clergy Watch: Day 26

On 4th November, at Peterlee Magistrates' Court, you may not now come along and witness the latest instalment in the lawfare against me by the right-wing Labour machine, including under it Sunday name.

This is not because of the lockdown. Yesterday, that same Court granted the Crown an adjournment because it had no case. It was dressed up as something flowerier, of course. But that was the gist of it. The date for revisiting this matter is, however, within the lockdown period that has been announced today.

Nevertheless, are you a bishop, priest or deacon of the Roman Obedience who is ministering in any of the Red Wall areas: the three Northern regions, the two Midland regions, and North Wales? (Why that matters will become evident from an emerging project.)

If so, then do you believe that I am guilty of the charges against me, meaning that my accusers are telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com to say so. No names will be used, but a running total will appear here every day.

The current total is zero. There is no bishop, priest or deacon of the Roman Obedience who is ministering in the North of England, the Midlands, or North Wales, and who believes my accusers to be anything other than liars.

Meanwhile, the Patrons of my parliamentary campaign at North West Durham now include, as private citizens, the 12 archbishops and diocesan bishops of the Red Wall dioceses of Birmingham, Hallam, Hexham and Newcastle, Lancaster, Leeds, Liverpool, Middlesbrough, Northampton, Nottingham, Salford, Shrewsbury, and Wrexham, together with the clergy of the Escomb and Pontop Partnerships, each of which falls partly in the North West Durham constituency.

Oliver Kamm Arrest Watch: Day 86

There is more evidence to arrest Oliver Kamm than there was to convict me, and he clams up over on Guido Fawkes when asked whether or not he has been arrested. So, has Oliver Kamm been arrested? If not, why not?

Kamm faked a death threat against himself, and he used a contact at Durham, who ought also to be arrested and who may in fact have been so, to try and pin it on me. That incident is so similar to the one of which I was convicted as to call into question my conviction. A daily update will appear here until further notice.

Oliver Kamm Libel Watch: Day 117

Oliver Kamm, you are a liar, and as such you are unfit to hold your position on The Times.

Sue me.

Your bizarre CapX article, as well as numerous other statements of yours since then, have had nothing to do with the substance of my previous court case, in relation to which I maintain my innocence. So they have not already been tested in court. And they are lies.

You made up the "anti-Semitic death threat" against yourself, in a language that I could not read, and even though you are not Jewish. I was present when the Police literally laughed it out.

Like me, the Police know how you did it; they know who in Durham you used, and so do I. Eventually, you will either do time for this, or it will see you sent to a psychiatric institution, possibly both.

You are a stalker with an acknowledged history of mental illness, and I can see less and less reason why I ought not to move to have you committed. Or sent to prison. By the criteria that were used to convict me, then that would be an open and shut case.

Next time that you try and frame someone, then do not use a language, and even a script, that your target cannot read. The Police tend to laugh out that kind of thing.

Oliver Kamm, you are a liar, and as such you are unfit to hold your position on The Times. Sue me. This post will appear here daily until you do.

The Seven Year Itch?

When, exactly, did Keir Starmer join the Labour Party? At least this time round, it cannot have been any earlier than 2013, when he ceased to be the Director of Public Prosecutions. 

He must therefore have been selected as the candidate for a safe parliamentary seat immediately upon having signed up, and he became Leader within five years of that. 

In my day, unless you were on the MP's staff or you were related to existing Councillors, then you would not have been nominated for a District Council seat with a mere seven years of party membership to your name. 

Like Starmer's appointment as DPP when he had never prosecuted a criminal case, it is all very spooky. But you do not have to choose between this and Boris Johnson. 

For example, I am a declared and active Independent candidate for North West Durham at the next General Election. Please give generously.

The Tiers of a Clown

This only needed to last two weeks, but they held out against it for two weeks, so now it is going to have to last at least a month, deep into the winter and almost to Christmas. 

Everything that Boris Johnson has ever had in his life, someone has given to him because they thought that it would be "funny". Well, it isn't. It is not funny in the least.

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Thursday 29 October 2020

Cry If You Want To

If Jeremy Corbyn had said nothing at all today, then he would have even suspended for having said nothing at all. Keir Starmer had a point to prove. But while Neil Kinnock did convince the Secret State that he was fit to be Prime Minister, he never convinced the voters. And while Starmer is entirely a product of the Secret State, he has little or no cut through to the electorate, not even against the worst Government in living memory.

For all Corbyn's undeniable faults, people who stay in the Labour Party should enjoy being in the same party as Tony Blair but not Corbyn, a party that presents the man who lost it the Red Wall as fit to be Prime Minister. They can bloody well have the Labour Party. Why would anyone want that, anyway? What is it with Labour Party members, across the spectrum, that they think that being outside "the party" is the same as being dead? I am a declared and active Independent candidate for North West Durham at the next General Election. Please give generously.

A Critical Stage

In case you missed it, the real news today is that nearly 100,000 people in England are now catching Covid-19 every day, with the number of people infected doubling every nine days.

But is that the lead story? Something has to change, indeed. The Prime Minister, for a start. The Secretary of State for Health. And the Leader of the Opposition, if he can be so described.

Community? Security? Trust?

Live on air, it is time to ask anyone from the Board of Deputies, or the Jewish Leadership Council, or the Campaign Against Antisemitism, or the Community Security Trust, under what circumstances they would ever consider voting Labour in the future, and when, exactly, they had ever voted Labour in the past. Well, there you are, then.

The Campaign Against Antisemitism is the Israeli Embassy's fake charity, and it is now turning its guns on a further 14 Labour MPs. This all rather recalls Jimmy Goldsmith's lawfare against Private Eye, or the management style of Don Arden, or the bombardment of entire West Bank towns if they produce a single stone-throwing youth. Those of us who have dealt with the Crown Prosecution Service, which of course has produced Keir Starmer, will be accustomed to this un-Englishness. 

And look at the list, which includes Diane Abbott, Tahir Ali, Apsana Begum, Afzal Khan, and Zarah Sultana. From cheating Hollywood executives, to New York slumlords, to the IDF, to the dominant liberal Right of London politics and the media, their victims tend to have something strikingly in common. You can be as light-skinned mixed-race as I am, and have a name like David Alexander Stephen Lindsay, but still get it from the CPS in league with the present Leadership of Durham County Council.

I am a declared and active Independent candidate for North West Durham at the next General Election. Either the present Leader of Durham County Council will be the Labour candidate, or he is afraid to face me. Please give generously.

Suspended Animation

Jeremy Corbyn has been suspended from the Labour Party, and the Whip has been withdrawn from him. It must be mortifying for him that he will no longer receive a weekly instruction, which in any case he has rightly been ignoring, to abstain on the decriminalisation of torture, and on the legalisation of the State murder of trade unionists. At least one living former Leader of the Labour Party is one of the world's leading war criminals. Is the party going to suspend him, too?

Any Labour candidate is now a member of the same party as Tony Blair, but not of the same party of Jeremy Corbyn, and any Labour parliamentary candidate is at least pretending to believe that Keir Starmer ought to become Prime Minister. I am a declared and active Independent candidate at the next General Election for North West Durham, where the right-wing Labour machine's latest, yet probably stale, product really is going to believe that. Please give generously.

The Blond Mule

It is sheer mulishness now. Sheer stubbornness and bloody-mindedness. That is why Boris Johnson is still holding out against free school meals in the holidays in England. And that is why he is still holding out against a 16-day national lockdown, beginning as midnight took us from tomorrow into Saturday. It is an awful thing to have to say, but he would rather see many thousands of deaths than admit that he was wrong.

The attitude to both of these questions embodies the lost promise of 2016, 2017 and 2019. Here along the Red Wall, we cast the decisive votes for Leave, we delivered the hung Parliament that only I had predicted even in the comments threads of the "national" media, we would have made Jeremy Corbyn Prime Minister if his own staff had not sabotaged his prospects, and we provided a Conservative overall majority of 80 because, while Corbyn was still anti-austerity as we preferred, he had caved in to Keir Starmer over Brexit.

For the rest of this century, political and cultural hegemony beckoned, if we could at least work out on what specific grounds we were going to exercise cultural hegemony. But less than a year later, and where are we now? It is no exaggeration to say that neither the Prime Minister nor the Leader of the Opposition cares whether we live or die. I am a declared and active Independent candidate for North West Durham at the next General Election. Please give generously.

Serious Failings, An Inadequate Process

And so a report is welcomed by its authors, namely a Hertfordshire golf club, a front organisation for what little remains of the Conservative Party in the London of which Boris Johnson was a two-term Mayor not very long ago, the Israeli Embassy acting as a fake charity, and the Israeli Embassy acting as a goon squad on the streets of London by, among other things, following black men home.

The cheers are being led by a "Jewish Labour Movement" that was recently revived after decades of dormancy purely in order to get rid of Jeremy Corbyn by framing all support for him as anti-Semitic by definition, and then, by the same means, to turn the Labour Party into a vehicle for upscale New York hard liberalism, free of proles, darkies, and the Red Wall. Step forward, Keir Starmer.

Flanked, sometimes literally, by a "strictly protect" CIA informant who lost her seat last year, and by a tax-avoiding squillionaire who has hated Corbyn ever since he stood up to her over the rampant child abuse in Islington's children's homes when she was the Leader of the Council. Marc Wadsworth needs to declare today that he will contest any seat that Ruth Smeeth did. Margaret Hodge's opponent at the polls needs to be either Jackie Walker or Tony Greenstein.

That report's recommendations will be implemented in full, promises the man who made that promise before the report had been published, or even officially completed. He himself is now a hit and run fugitive, and he leads a party that cannot pull ahead of the worst Government in living memory, yet he is being taken entirely seriously as some kind of statesman. Kittens are being had all over the place at the revelation that the administrative life of a political party can be a bit political.

While it has been writing up this dictated report and then sitting on it in an attempt to give the illusion of activity, what else has the Equality and Human Rights Commission been doing? What a paragon of equality and human rights this country must be, that such a body has had nothing else to do for nearly two years. There are countries where it takes a footballer, not quite 23, to get the hungry children fed. How grateful the EHRC, and indeed the Labour Party, must be, that they do not live in a place like that. 

Or somewhere where the principal Opposition party operated a hierarchy of race under the Leadership of a former Director of Public Prosecutions who could not bring himself to mention either the Windrush scandal or the fire at Grenfell Tower, never mind the Forde Inquiry into racism among the party's staff, an Inquiry that he had effectively killed off. 

A Leader who presided over the victimisation of black women MPs, who had dismissed Black Lives Matter as a "moment", who had identified with those who had taken selfies alongside the bodies of black murder victims, who had replaced Diane Abbott with an all-white Shadow Home Office team that had repeatedly been outflanked on the left by Priti Patel, who had promoted Jess Phillips, who had rejected self-determination for Kashmir, who had indicated his view of self-determination for the Chagos Islands by revelling in his role in the torture of Julian Assange, who had refused to bring charges in relation to the death of Jean Charles de Menezes (or in relation to the death of Ian Tomlinson), and who had failed to oppose the early lifting of the lockdown despite the far higher risk of Covid-19 to people of colour.

Any Labour candidate at the next General Election would at least have to pretend to believe that that Leader ought to become Prime Minister. I am a declared and active Independent candidate for North West Durham, where the right-wing Labour machine's latest, yet probably stale, product really is going to believe that. Please give generously.

Swapped Details?

The Police have flatly denied Keir Starmer's claim that an Officer was present when he left the scene of his traffic accident. He has committed a criminal offence. Does someone have to report him for him to be arrested? In 10 hours' time, plenty of people will have cause to do that.

Then again, about today's theatrics from the EHRC, nobody cares. Well, nobody who would ever have voted Labour in a million years, anyway. Out will be wheeled the Board of Deputies, who are all as screamingly obviously Tories as Jeremy Corbyn would screamingly obviously be a left-winger even if you had no idea who he was. 

Whoever appeared today from that, or from the Jewish Leadership Council (which is direct Conservative Party astroturfing), or whatever, try and imagine that person voting Labour under any circumstances. Try and imagine them voting anything other than Conservative in their lives. Well, there you are, then.

Suicide Watch: Day Five

The two of you who are planning to drag me back to court, I am still here. What you really want is for me to commit suicide, which strongly suggests that you have been successful in that regard in the past. One of you has already spent nearly 20 years trying to bring about my death by my own hand. Every time that either of you sends the Police round, or what have you, then that is the intention.

But that will never be the effect. You have met your match in me, and you need to remember that while I am not permitted to name you here, you would be named in court if you pursued me there. You would be named in court as having tried to drive a man to suicide. Would that be good for business? Would that be good for political advancement? Would the Church see that as good for the Church? Think on.

This post will appear daily while you continued your doomed campaign to force me to take my own life. Each of you has clearly succeeded in forcing other people to take their own lives. But I say again, to each and both of you, that you have met your match in me. As one of you ought to have worked out a long time ago.

CPS Watch: Day Five

Keir Starmer's Crown Prosecution Service does not deny that it is an enforcement agency of the right-wing Labour machine, and that its behaviour towards me at every point has proved that conclusively, as that behaviour continues to do.

The CPS does not deny that it corrupted the jury at my trial, and that it would do the same to any jury, or to any bench of magistrates, that might try me in future. If I were ever to be convicted of anything again, then that point would be proved.

The Director of Public Prosecutions, Max Hill, does not dispute that he knows me to be innocent of the offences with which he has charged me.

His predecessor, Alison Saunders, does not dispute that she has always known me to have been innocent of the offences with which she charged me and arranged to have me convicted.

Saunders, Hill and the CPS do not dispute that they have persecuted me, and that they continue to do so, purely in order to advance their professional, political and social lives on and around the right wing of the Labour Party.

And Saunders, Hill and the CPS do not dispute that, since I am nothing special, they are certainly doing this to dozens of other people at any given time.

This post will appear daily until there is any change in the above circumstances. I am a declared and active candidate for the parliamentary seat of North West Durham at the next General Election. Please give generously.

My imprisonment prior to the next General Election would make me the First Past the Post, just as my conviction prior to the last one would have saved my deposit. My enemies need to think on.

Clergy Watch: Day 24

On 4th November, at Peterlee Magistrates' Court, you may come along and witness the latest instalment in the lawfare against me by the right-wing Labour machine, including under it Sunday name.

Therefore, are you a bishop, priest or deacon of the Roman Obedience who is ministering in any of the Red Wall areas: the three Northern regions, the two Midland regions, and North Wales? (Why that matters will become evident from an emerging project.)

If so, then do you believe that I am guilty of the charges against me, meaning that my accusers are telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com to say so. No names will be used, but a running total will appear here every day.

The current total is zero. There is no bishop, priest or deacon of the Roman Obedience who is ministering in the North of England, the Midlands, or North Wales, and who believes my accusers to be anything other than liars.

Oliver Kamm Arrest Watch: Day 84

There is more evidence to arrest Oliver Kamm than there was to convict me, and he clams up over on Guido Fawkes when asked whether or not he has been arrested. So, has Oliver Kamm been arrested? If not, why not?

Kamm faked a death threat against himself, and he used a contact at Durham, who ought also to be arrested and who may in fact have been so, to try and pin it on me. That incident is so similar to the one of which I was convicted as to call into question my conviction. A daily update will appear here until further notice.

Oliver Kamm Libel Watch: Day 115

Oliver Kamm, you are a liar, and as such you are unfit to hold your position on The Times.

Sue me.

Your bizarre CapX article, as well as numerous other statements of yours since then, have had nothing to do with the substance of my previous court case, in relation to which I maintain my innocence. So they have not already been tested in court. And they are lies.

You made up the "anti-Semitic death threat" against yourself, in a language that I could not read, and even though you are not Jewish. I was present when the Police literally laughed it out.

Like me, the Police know how you did it; they know who in Durham you used, and so do I. Eventually, you will either do time for this, or it will see you sent to a psychiatric institution, possibly both.

You are a stalker with an acknowledged history of mental illness, and I can see less and less reason why I ought not to move to have you committed. Or sent to prison. By the criteria that were used to convict me, then that would be an open and shut case.

Next time that you try and frame someone, then do not use a language, and even a script, that your target cannot read. The Police tend to laugh out that kind of thing.

Oliver Kamm, you are a liar, and as such you are unfit to hold your position on The Times. Sue me. This post will appear here daily until you do.

Wednesday 28 October 2020

The Whole Day Through?

If Georgia and Texas really are in play, then either the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett represents a "Mission Accomplished" moment for people who no longer have to vote for the kind of man that they would not have in the house, or those people have given up waiting. 

Either way, they are going to vote for the same candidate as every surviving member of the Bush Administration. And if that is not a good enough reason to view a Biden Administration with unalloyed horror, then I cannot imagine what possibly could be.

Never Going Back To That?

Jonathan Ashworth and I have known each other for more than half our lives, and I say this in that spirit.

The most shameful moment in the Labour Party's history was the Iraq War. Nothing else comes close.

Scarlet Letters

Dear Fr Raniero Cantalamessa OFMCap is to be a Cardinal, which is wonderful news. 

What with thisthis, and this, who is the favoured son now? And who does some Pauline Campbell-Jones think that she is?

Meal Ticket?

Huge numbers of people who voted Conservative last December suspect or even expect that their children will be on free school meals by this December.

Richard Holden does seem to have abstained intentionally. He understands. But how many of the rest of the Red Wall Blue MPs do?

Daily Toll

And so we pass 200 deaths per day from Covid-19.

The lockdown was imposed too late, and it was lifted too early.

Sometimes, things really are that simple.

Bye, Definition

Expect to hear a lot tomorrow about the IHRA Definition. But it is the problem. Not anything to do with a Corbyn Labour Leadership that now seems much longer ago than it really was. The IHRA Definition. 

It is wrong to tell Israelis to “go home” when the State of Israel was founded in the year that the Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury. That point is not best made by anyone who supports Donald Trump, since he tells even Ayanna Pressley to “go home”, despite the fact that her ancestors must have been in what is now the United States for 400 years, unlike his or those of any of his children. 

The Oxford English Dictionary sufficiently defines anti-Semitism as “Hostility to or prejudice against Jews”. The IHRA Definition is a denial of BAME, migrant and refugee, and therefore working-class, experience redolent of the Windrush scandal and of the fire at Grenfell Tower. In curtailing criticism of a foreign state, the IHRA Definition is incompatible with national sovereignty. 

The denial of the ancient indigenous Christian presence in the Holy Land, where it created modern Palestinian identity, contributes significantly to the worldwide persecution of Christians. The Palestinian Christians’ ancestors predated the Israelite Conquest, they founded Jerusalem, and they became Christian when or before the Roman Empire did.

And one’s attitude to the Palestinian struggle is the litmus test of one’s attitude to the specific phenomenon of white violence against people of colour throughout the world, including in Britain. The proposed registration of Black Lives Matter as a political party ought to scare the life out of the IHRA-compliant Labour Party of a former Director of Public Prosecutions.

All in all, it not surprising that only 31 countries in the world have adopted the IHRA Definition, and that 130 of our own 343 local authorities, more than one third, have also declined to do so.

In each constituency in 2024, there should be one candidate, of any party or none, who subscribed to this and thisThe complete list of those candidates would appear here, and anywhere else that would publish it. I am the declared and active Independent candidate for North West Durham. Please give generously.

Not Begging Pardon

The pardons for the Scottish miners are a step in the right direction, towards legislation at Westminster that annulled throughout the United Kingdom all convictions and other adverse court decisions arising out of Clay Cross, Shrewsbury, Wapping, and the three Miners' Strikes since 1970.

Does the Government want to hold onto its Red Wall seats, and to capture more of them next time? Well, there you are, then. And while a section of its own party might vote against this, Labour would have to abstain, or even vote in favour. If any Labour MPs did vote against, then it would be good to have flushed them out. Please give generously.

CPS Watch: Day Four

Keir Starmer's Crown Prosecution Service does not deny that it is an enforcement agency of the right-wing Labour machine, and that its behaviour towards me at every point has proved that conclusively, as that behaviour continues to do.

The CPS does not deny that it corrupted the jury at my trial, and that it would do the same to any jury, or to any bench of magistrates, that might try me in future. If I were ever to be convicted of anything again, then that point would be proved.

The Director of Public Prosecutions, Max Hill, does not dispute that he knows me to be innocent of the offences with which he has charged me.

His predecessor, Alison Saunders, does not dispute that she has always known me to have been innocent of the offences with which she charged me and arranged to have me convicted.

Saunders, Hill and the CPS do not dispute that they have persecuted me, and that they continue to do so, purely in order to advance their professional, political and social lives on and around the right wing of the Labour Party.

And Saunders, Hill and the CPS do not dispute that, since I am nothing special, they are certainly doing this to dozens of other people at any given time.

This post will appear daily until there is any change in the above circumstances. I am a declared and active candidate for the parliamentary seat of North West Durham at the next General Election. Please give generously.

My imprisonment prior to the next General Election would make me the First Past the Post, just as my conviction prior to the last one would have saved my deposit. My enemies need to think on.

Suicide Watch: Day Four

The two of you who are planning to drag me back to court, I am still here. What you really want is for me to commit suicide, which strongly suggests that you have been successful in that regard in the past. One of you has already spent nearly 20 years trying to bring about my death by my own hand. Every time that either of you sends the Police round, or what have you, then that is the intention.

But that will never be the effect. You have met your match in me, and you need to remember that while I am not permitted to name you here, you would be named in court if you pursued me there. You would be named in court as having tried to drive a man to suicide. Would that be good for business? Would that be good for political advancement? Would the Church see that as good for the Church? Think on.

This post will appear daily while you continued your doomed campaign to force me to take my own life. Each of you has clearly succeeded in forcing other people to take their own lives. But I say again, to each and both of you, that you have met your match in me. As one of you ought to have worked out a long time ago.

Clergy Watch: Day 23

On 4th November, at Peterlee Magistrates' Court, you may come along and witness the latest instalment in the lawfare against me by the right-wing Labour machine, including under it Sunday name.

Therefore, are you a bishop, priest or deacon of the Roman Obedience who is ministering in any of the Red Wall areas: the three Northern regions, the two Midland regions, and North Wales? (Why that matters will become evident from an emerging project.)

If so, then do you believe that I am guilty of the charges against me, meaning that my accusers are telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com to say so. No names will be used, but a running total will appear here every day.

The current total is zero. There is no bishop, priest or deacon of the Roman Obedience who is ministering in the North of England, the Midlands, or North Wales, and who believes my accusers to be anything other than liars.

Oliver Kamm Arrest Watch: Day 83

There is more evidence to arrest Oliver Kamm than there was to convict me, and he clams up over on Guido Fawkes when asked whether or not he has been arrested. So, has Oliver Kamm been arrested? If not, why not?

Kamm faked a death threat against himself, and he used a contact at Durham, who ought also to be arrested and who may in fact have been so, to try and pin it on me. That incident is so similar to the one of which I was convicted as to call into question my conviction. A daily update will appear here until further notice.

Oliver Kamm Libel Watch: Day 114

Oliver Kamm, you are a liar, and as such you are unfit to hold your position on The Times.

Sue me.

Your bizarre CapX article, as well as numerous other statements of yours since then, have had nothing to do with the substance of my previous court case, in relation to which I maintain my innocence. So they have not already been tested in court. And they are lies.

You made up the "anti-Semitic death threat" against yourself, in a language that I could not read, and even though you are not Jewish. I was present when the Police literally laughed it out.

Like me, the Police know how you did it; they know who in Durham you used, and so do I. Eventually, you will either do time for this, or it will see you sent to a psychiatric institution, possibly both.

You are a stalker with an acknowledged history of mental illness, and I can see less and less reason why I ought not to move to have you committed. Or sent to prison. By the criteria that were used to convict me, then that would be an open and shut case.

Next time that you try and frame someone, then do not use a language, and even a script, that your target cannot read. The Police tend to laugh out that kind of thing.

Oliver Kamm, you are a liar, and as such you are unfit to hold your position on The Times. Sue me. This post will appear here daily until you do.

Tuesday 27 October 2020

Bread, Not A Stone

What if the parents were indeed fat and feckless? 

At which precise points of parental fatness and parental fecklessness does there cease to be a civic obligation to ensure that an actually existing child is fed? 

And why, precisely?

A Very Old Testament

"The EHRC will report this week, blah, blah, blah." Who cares? Seriously, who on earth still cares about this? Exactly how many people ever did? It did not stop Labour from taking 40 per cent of the vote in 2017. And it was the betrayal of Brexit by, to and for Keir Starmer that caused the collapse of the Labour vote in 2019. It was not this. 

Most British Jews, of whom there have only ever been extremely few in the first place, did not vote Labour even when the Leader of the Labour Party was a Jew. You might as well have cared what the miners thought of Margaret Thatcher. However strong the opinion, it was never going to make any electoral difference. And there were far more miners or ex-miners in Britain in the 1980s than there have been Jews in Britain at any given time, including the present moment. 

A tiny, and overwhelmingly Conservative, minority did not like the Leader of the Labour Party, who in any case is no longer the Leader of the Labour Party? So what? And it is hardly as if we were currently living in a time that was short of real news.

In The Most Serious Category?


Who'd be a political dissident, and be treated more that twice as badly as a Deputy Headteacher with a stash of child pornography?

The Purple Passage To Parliament

Although I had contacted all of the relevant bishops directly, and although the mysterious suspension of my email account yesterday had given them an extra day in which to say no, none of them has done so. 

Therefore, I am pleased to confirm that, on this basis, the Patrons of my parliamentary campaign at North West Durham now include, as private citizens, the 12 archbishops and diocesan bishops of the Red Wall dioceses of Birmingham, Hallam, Hexham and Newcastle, Lancaster, Leeds, Liverpool, Middlesbrough, Northampton, Nottingham, Salford, Shrewsbury, and Wrexham, together with the clergy of the Escomb and Pontop Partnerships, each of which falls partly in the North West Durham constituency.

Please give generously. And certain chambermaids who think that you run the Church, or even speak for Her, think on.

Supreme Caution

Cheer when Amy Coney Barrett actually does anything. I hope that she does. But none of the others ever has. Indeed, she has already said that she will not be. Well, of course she has.

There is nothing remotely Catholic about interpreting the Constitution as it might have been intended or received by eighteenth-century Deists, insofar as we could possibly know.

Nor is that any answer to interpreting it in accordance with contemporary liberal opinion. As we have already seen over, and over, and over again. And as we shall see, as Donald Trump might put it, over, and over, and over again again.

Suicide Watch: Day Three

The two of you who are planning to drag me back to court, I am still here. What you really want is for me to commit suicide, which strongly suggests that you have been successful in that regard in the past. One of you has already spent nearly 20 years trying to bring about my death by my own hand. Every time that either of you sends the Police round, or what have you, then that is the intention.

But that will never be the effect. You have met your match in me, and you need to remember that while I am not permitted to name you here, you would be named in court if you pursued me there. You would be named in court as having tried to drive a man to suicide. Would that be good for business? Would that be good for political advancement? Would the Church see that as good for the Church? Think on.

This post will appear daily while you continued your doomed campaign to force me to take my own life. Each of you has clearly succeeded in forcing other people to take their own lives. But I say again, to each and both of you, that you have met your match in me. As one of you ought to have worked out a long time ago.

CPS Watch: Day Three

Keir Starmer's Crown Prosecution Service does not deny that it is an enforcement agency of the right-wing Labour machine, and that its behaviour towards me at every point has proved that conclusively, as that behaviour continues to do.

The CPS does not deny that it corrupted the jury at my trial, and that it would do the same to any jury, or to any bench of magistrates, that might try me in future. If I were ever to be convicted of anything again, then that point would be proved.

The Director of Public Prosecutions, Max Hill, does not dispute that he knows me to be innocent of the offences with which he has charged me.

His predecessor, Alison Saunders, does not dispute that she has always known me to have been innocent of the offences with which she charged me and arranged to have me convicted.

Saunders, Hill and the CPS do not dispute that they have persecuted me, and that they continue to do so, purely in order to advance their professional, political and social lives on and around the right wing of the Labour Party.

And Saunders, Hill and the CPS do not dispute that, since I am nothing special, they are certainly doing this to dozens of other people at any given time.

This post will appear daily until there is any change in the above circumstances. I am a declared and active candidate for the parliamentary seat of North West Durham at the next General Election. Please give generously.

My imprisonment prior to the next General Election would make me the First Past the Post, just as my conviction prior to the last one would have saved my deposit. My enemies need to think on.

Clergy Watch: Day 22

On 4th November, at Peterlee Magistrates' Court, you may come along and witness the latest instalment in the lawfare against me by the right-wing Labour machine, including under it Sunday name.

Therefore, are you a bishop, priest or deacon of the Roman Obedience who is ministering in any of the Red Wall areas: the three Northern regions, the two Midland regions, and North Wales? (Why that matters will become evident from an emerging project.)

If so, then do you believe that I am guilty of the charges against me, meaning that my accusers are telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com to say so. No names will be used, but a running total will appear here every day.

The current total is zero. There is no bishop, priest or deacon of the Roman Obedience who is ministering in the North of England, the Midlands, or North Wales, and who believes my accusers to be anything other than liars.

Oliver Kamm Arrest Watch: Day 82

There is more evidence to arrest Oliver Kamm than there was to convict me, and he clams up over on Guido Fawkes when asked whether or not he has been arrested. So, has Oliver Kamm been arrested? If not, why not?

Kamm faked a death threat against himself, and he used a contact at Durham, who ought also to be arrested and who may in fact have been so, to try and pin it on me. That incident is so similar to the one of which I was convicted as to call into question my conviction. A daily update will appear here until further notice.

Oliver Kamm Libel Watch: Day 113

Oliver Kamm, you are a liar, and as such you are unfit to hold your position on The Times.

Sue me.

Your bizarre CapX article, as well as numerous other statements of yours since then, have had nothing to do with the substance of my previous court case, in relation to which I maintain my innocence. So they have not already been tested in court. And they are lies.

You made up the "anti-Semitic death threat" against yourself, in a language that I could not read, and even though you are not Jewish. I was present when the Police literally laughed it out.

Like me, the Police know how you did it; they know who in Durham you used, and so do I. Eventually, you will either do time for this, or it will see you sent to a psychiatric institution, possibly both.

You are a stalker with an acknowledged history of mental illness, and I can see less and less reason why I ought not to move to have you committed. Or sent to prison. By the criteria that were used to convict me, then that would be an open and shut case.

Next time that you try and frame someone, then do not use a language, and even a script, that your target cannot read. The Police tend to laugh out that kind of thing.

Oliver Kamm, you are a liar, and as such you are unfit to hold your position on The Times. Sue me. This post will appear here daily until you do.

Monday 26 October 2020

Welcome To Your Gory Bed, Or To Victory

The Conservatives have tabled a motion in the Scottish Parliament, supporting Alex Salmond’s demand that the Scottish Government publish the legal advice behind its battle with him. They intend to hold a debate, and to put the matter to the vote. It's on.

In Essence

Any item is essential if you need it. Does Mark Drakeford think that people buy wallpaper, or sellotape, for a laugh?

No, they buy these things because, at that moment, they need them. At that moment, those are essential items. 

There are items that, while you may legitimately want them, you cannot possibly need, so that they cannot possibly be essential. But that is something else.

Not So Broken English

Boris Johnson's England is one thing. But Marcus Rashford's England does not seem to be doing too badly after all. After last week, and with more in that vein to come, Rashford may turn out to be the man who saved England, as such, from its politicians.



Learn From The Teacher

The best thing that Western politicians could do to honour the memory of Samuel Paty would be to stop supporting the likes of his killer in numerous parts of the world.

Transitional Coordination

How General would a Strike have to be in order to qualify as a General Strike? Plenty of people outside Minsk will be taking no part in any such action in Belarus. Did Alexander Lukashenko win 80 per cent of the vote? No, of course not. But did he win 60 per cent? Yes, of course.

No doubt Maria Kolesnikova has been abducted by his agents. But so what that she sits on the seven-member "Presidium" (an old Soviet word) of what is variously called the "Transitional Council" and the "Coordination Council"?

That "Council" is nothing more than a body of 600 people nominally appointed by Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the lightweight failed candidate to become a NATO and EU puppet President of Belarus. 

The composition of the "Presidium" indicates where real power would lie if this "Council" were able to give effect to its obvious affectation to be the real sovereign body. As for its horizontal triband of white, red and white, that was the flag of the collaborators with the Nazis.

I have lost far more elections than Tsikhanouskaya will ever contest. Therefore, I am thinking of naming a Transitional Coordination Council of around 600 people, perhaps one from each of the 650 parliamentary constituencies, with a seven-member Presidium. 

I would then appeal for those to be recognised as this country's legitimate Legislature and Executive respectively. If nothing else, then such recognition might be forthcoming from President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus. Why ever not?

Own Goal?

Marcus Rashford has now said that Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock were liars.

Unless they produce the evidence that they have been in contact with him, then they are.

If Hancock is the fibber, then this is Johnson's unanswerable excuse to get rid of him at last.

Fair of Face?

I have been shut out of Hotmail and Facebook for at least 24 hours because they have decided that my passwords are wrong. Both on the same day, so I cannot use them to recover each other.

Not only that, but all of my settings on here are having to be put back, since they seem to have defaulted to, for example, American spelling. And it's still only Monday.

Suicide Watch: Day Two

The two of you who are planning to drag me back to court, I am still here. What you really want is for me to commit suicide, which strongly suggests that you have been successful in that regard in the past. One of you has already spent nearly 20 years trying to bring about my death by my own hand. Every time that either of you sends the Police round, or what have you, then that is the intention.

But that will never be the effect. You have met your match in me, and you need to remember that while I am not permitted to name you here, you would be named in court if you pursued me there. You would be named in court as having tried to drive a man to suicide. Would that be good for business? Would that be good for political advancement? Would the Church see that as good for the Church? Think on.

This post will appear daily while you continued your doomed campaign to force me to take my own life. Each of you has clearly succeeded in forcing other people to take their own lives. But I say again, to each and both of you, that you have met your match in me. As one of you ought to have worked out a long time ago.

CPS Watch: Day Two

Keir Starmer's Crown Prosecution Service does not deny that it is an enforcement agency of the right-wing Labour machine, and that its behaviour towards me at every point has proved that conclusively, as that behaviour continues to do.

The CPS does not deny that it corrupted the jury at my trial, and that it would do the same to any jury, or to any bench of magistrates, that might try me in future. If I were ever to be convicted of anything again, then that point would be proved.

The Director of Public Prosecutions, Max Hill, does not dispute that he knows me to be innocent of the offences with which he has charged me.

His predecessor, Alison Saunders, does not dispute that she has always known me to have been innocent of the offences with which she charged me and arranged to have me convicted.

Saunders, Hill and the CPS do not dispute that they have persecuted me, and that they continue to do so, purely in order to advance their professional, political and social lives on and around the right wing of the Labour Party.

And Saunders, Hill and the CPS do not dispute that, since I am nothing special, they are certainly doing this to dozens of other people at any given time.

This post will appear daily until there is any change in the above circumstances. I am a declared and active candidate for the parliamentary seat of North West Durham at the next General Election. Please give generously.

My imprisonment prior to the next General Election would make me the First Past the Post, just as my conviction prior to the last one would have saved my deposit. My enemies need to think on.

Clergy Watch: Day 21

On 4th November, at Peterlee Magistrates' Court, you may come along and witness the latest instalment in the lawfare against me by the right-wing Labour machine, including under it Sunday name.

Therefore, are you a bishop, priest or deacon of the Roman Obedience who is ministering in any of the Red Wall areas: the three Northern regions, the two Midland regions, and North Wales? (Why that matters will become evident from an emerging project.)

If so, then do you believe that I am guilty of the charges against me, meaning that my accusers are telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com to say so. No names will be used, but a running total will appear here every day.

The current total is zero. There is no bishop, priest or deacon of the Roman Obedience who is ministering in the North of England, the Midlands, or North Wales, and who believes my accusers to be anything other than liars.

Oliver Kamm Arrest Watch: Day 81

There is more evidence to arrest Oliver Kamm than there was to convict me, and he clams up over on Guido Fawkes when asked whether or not he has been arrested. So, has Oliver Kamm been arrested? If not, why not?

Kamm faked a death threat against himself, and he used a contact at Durham, who ought also to be arrested and who may in fact have been so, to try and pin it on me. That incident is so similar to the one of which I was convicted as to call into question my conviction. A daily update will appear here until further notice.

Oliver Kamm Libel Watch: Day 112

Oliver Kamm, you are a liar, and as such you are unfit to hold your position on The Times.

Sue me.

Your bizarre CapX article, as well as numerous other statements of yours since then, have had nothing to do with the substance of my previous court case, in relation to which I maintain my innocence. So they have not already been tested in court. And they are lies.

You made up the "anti-Semitic death threat" against yourself, in a language that I could not read, and even though you are not Jewish. I was present when the Police literally laughed it out.

Like me, the Police know how you did it; they know who in Durham you used, and so do I. Eventually, you will either do time for this, or it will see you sent to a psychiatric institution, possibly both.

You are a stalker with an acknowledged history of mental illness, and I can see less and less reason why I ought not to move to have you committed. Or sent to prison. By the criteria that were used to convict me, then that would be an open and shut case.

Next time that you try and frame someone, then do not use a language, and even a script, that your target cannot read. The Police tend to laugh out that kind of thing.

Oliver Kamm, you are a liar, and as such you are unfit to hold your position on The Times. Sue me. This post will appear here daily until you do.

Sunday 25 October 2020

Suicide Watch: Day One

The two of you who are planning to drag me back to court, I am still here. What you really want is for me to commit suicide, which strongly suggests that you have been successful in that regard in the past. One of you has already spent nearly 20 years trying to bring about my death by my own hand. Every time that either of you sends the Police round, or what have you, then that is the intention.

But that will never be the effect. You have met your match in me, and you need to remember that while I am not permitted to name you here, you would be named in court if you pursued me there. You would be named in court as having tried to drive a man to suicide. Would that be good for business? Would that be good for political advancement? Would the Church see that as good for the Church? Think on.

This post will appear daily while you continued your doomed campaign to force me to take my own life. Each of you has clearly succeeded in forcing other people to take their own lives. But I say again, to each and both of you, that you have met your match in me. As one of you ought to have worked out a long time ago.

Julian Assange: If We Tolerate This

Paul Knaggs is on tremendous form here.

Come What May

For the avoidance of all doubt, I will be standing for Parliament at North West Durham at the next General Election, come what may. 

Every penny raised by this appeal will be spent on that campaign. Spread the word.

Hungry, Hungry Hypocrites

Labour is still only tied with the Conservatives. Keir Starmer is rubbish. The de facto Leader of the Opposition is Marcus Rashford. He has never suggested that his family's extreme poverty began only when he was 13, or a few months short of it. But until then, having been born on 31st October 1997, he had only ever lived under a Labour Government.

Any Labour candidate in 2024 will at least have to pretend to believe that Starmer ought to become Prime Minister. Here at North West Durham, the Labour candidate really will believe that the Blair Government, under which little Marcus with a working mother sometimes did not eat on a given day, was Britain's greatest administration ever. Please give generously.

Nothing In Common

Tulsi Gabbard is on the right lines when she calls for Turkey to be removed from NATO for its aggression towards Armenia.

But in fact it is the rest of us who should let the Turkish Islamists have NATO, along with any Eastern European neo-Nazis who might also want to stay in it, and any Latin American caudillos who might still want to join it.

The Elephant In The Room

Michael Steele is voting for Joe Biden.

So why should anyone else?

CPS Watch: Day One

As of today, Keir Starmer's Crown Prosecution Service does not deny that it is an enforcement agency of the right-wing Labour machine, and that its behaviour towards me at every point has proved that conclusively, as that behaviour continues to do.

As of today the CPS does not deny that it corrupted the jury at my trial, and that it would do the same to any jury, or to any bench of magistrates, that might try me in future. If I were ever to be convicted of anything again, then that point would be proved.

As of today, the Director of Public Prosecutions, Max Hill, does not dispute that he knows me to be innocent of the offences with which he has charged me.

As of today, his predecessor, Alison Saunders, does not dispute that she has always known me to have been innocent of the offences with which she charged me and arranged to have me convicted.

As of today, Saunders, Hill and the CPS do not dispute that they have persecuted me, and that they continue to do so, purely in order to advance their professional, political and social lives on and around the right wing of the Labour Party.

And as of today, Saunders, Hill and the CPS do not dispute that, since I am nothing special, they are certainly doing this to dozens of other people at any given time.

This post will appear daily until there is any change in the above circumstances. I am a declared and active candidate for the parliamentary seat of North West Durham at the next General Election. Please give generously.

My imprisonment prior to the next General Election would make me the First Past the Post, just as my conviction prior to the last one would have saved my deposit. My enemies need to think on.

Clergy Watch: Day 20

On 4th November, at Peterlee Magistrates' Court, you may come along and witness the latest instalment in the lawfare against me by the right-wing Labour machine, including under it Sunday name.

Therefore, are you a bishop, priest or deacon of the Roman Obedience who is ministering in any of the Red Wall areas: the three Northern regions, the two Midland regions, and North Wales? (Why that matters will become evident from an emerging project.)

If so, then do you believe that I am guilty of the charges against me, meaning that my accusers are telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com to say so. No names will be used, but a running total will appear here every day.

The current total is zero. There is no bishop, priest or deacon of the Roman Obedience who is ministering in the North of England, the Midlands, or North Wales, and who believes my accusers to be anything other than liars.

Oliver Kamm Arrest Watch: Day 80

There is more evidence to arrest Oliver Kamm than there was to convict me, and he clams up over on Guido Fawkes when asked whether or not he has been arrested. So, has Oliver Kamm been arrested? If not, why not?

Kamm faked a death threat against himself, and he used a contact at Durham, who ought also to be arrested and who may in fact have been so, to try and pin it on me. That incident is so similar to the one of which I was convicted as to call into question my conviction. A daily update will appear here until further notice.

Oliver Kamm Libel Watch: Day 111

Oliver Kamm, you are a liar, and as such you are unfit to hold your position on The Times.

Sue me.

Your bizarre CapX article, as well as numerous other statements of yours since then, have had nothing to do with the substance of my previous court case, in relation to which I maintain my innocence. So they have not already been tested in court. And they are lies.

You made up the "anti-Semitic death threat" against yourself, in a language that I could not read, and even though you are not Jewish. I was present when the Police literally laughed it out.

Like me, the Police know how you did it; they know who in Durham you used, and so do I. Eventually, you will either do time for this, or it will see you sent to a psychiatric institution, possibly both.

You are a stalker with an acknowledged history of mental illness, and I can see less and less reason why I ought not to move to have you committed. Or sent to prison. By the criteria that were used to convict me, then that would be an open and shut case.

Next time that you try and frame someone, then do not use a language, and even a script, that your target cannot read. The Police tend to laugh out that kind of thing.

Oliver Kamm, you are a liar, and as such you are unfit to hold your position on The Times. Sue me. This post will appear here daily until you do.

Saturday 24 October 2020

A Fixed And Familiar Ideal

Unless I had heard otherwise by four o’clock on Monday afternoon, then the Patrons of my parliamentary campaign at North West Durham will include, as private citizens, the 12 archbishops and diocesan bishops of the Red Wall dioceses of Birmingham, Hallam, Hexham and Newcastle, Lancaster, Leeds, Liverpool, Middlesbrough, Northampton, Nottingham, Salford, Shrewsbury, and Wrexham, together with the clergy of the Escomb and Pontop Partnerships, each of which falls partly in the North West Durham constituency. 

Although I have no expectation that this will happen, on Monday afternoon, I shall publish the names of any of them who had chosen not to become Campaign Patrons, thereby choosing to dissociate themselves from a parliamentary candidacy the stated principles and policies of which included the following: 

“A strict rule is not only necessary for ruling; it is also necessary for rebelling,” since, “a fixed and familiar ideal is necessary to any sort of revolution.” God has revealed all that the Holy Roman Church professes Him to have revealed. Each and every individual human life is absolutely sacred from the point of fertilisation to the point of natural death. That principle is the foundation of all morality. We struggle against evils that include direct abortion, indirect abortion at least except where any other course of action would result in the loss of both lives, euthanasia, assisted suicide, destructive experimentation on embryonic human beings, human cloning, human-animal hybridity, “saviour siblings”, capital punishment, and unjust war, if any war be just, but certainly including total war, preemptive war, the international trade in arms, and the manufacture, possession or use of nuclear, radiological, chemical or biological weapons. Their victims are disproportionately working-class people and people of colour. Therefore, we struggle against evils that include poverty, racism, sexual promiscuity, pornography, eugenics, marginalisation of people with disabilities, lack of due respect for old age, refusal to celebrate the infinite beauty of every human being as the image and likeness of God, refusal to respect the dignity of parents as the first educators of their children, classification of human beings solely or primarily as economic units, and policies likely to give rise to armed conflict. Their victims are disproportionately working-class people and people of colour.

The problem with the world is not that it has people in it. We celebrate the full compatibility between the highest view of human demographic, economic, intellectual and cultural expansion and development, and the most active concern for the conservation of the natural world and of the treasures bequeathed by such expansion and development in the past.

God has given Man dominion over the beasts, thus over the land, and thus over everything on and under the land. God has given Man dominion over the fish, thus over the waters, and thus over everything in and under the waters. God has given Man dominion over the birds, thus over the sky, and thus over everything in the sky, as far up as the sky goes, and the sky goes up a very long way. That dominion is entrusted so that we might “be fruitful and multiply”.

If a scientific fact as basic and as obvious as biological sex can be denied, then so can any other scientific fact, to the ruin of human progress. It is contrary both to whole history of human experience, and to the plain facts of biological science, to suggest either that sexual orientation is fixed, or that “gender” is “fluid”. “Sex is a biological fact, and is immutable. There are two sexes, male and female. Men and boys are male. Women and girls are female. It is impossible to change sex. These were until very recently understood as basic facts of life by almost everyone.” No one is “born in the wrong body”. Women-only spaces must be defended, including in sport. The “gender reassignment” of children and adolescents must be resisted.

The denial of the ancient indigenous Christian presence in the Holy Land, where it created modern Palestinian identity, contributes significantly to the worldwide persecution of Christians. The Palestinian Christians’ ancestors predated the Israelite Conquest, they founded Jerusalem, and they became Christian when or before the Roman Empire did.

Christian witness in Britain today depends on communities with roots in Africa and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe and Latin America, Asia and the Pacific.

with Saint George’s Day, Saint Andrew’s Day, Saint David’s Day and Saint Patrick’s Day also public holidays throughout the United Kingdom.

the 0.7 per cent target intact, but with a ban on the funding of offences against the sanctity of life.

Parliament should legislate that the withdrawal of nutrition and hydration was intentional killing. Funds should be diverted to palliative care, to the hospice movement, and to research on adult and cord blood stem cells. We need to ban Fixed Odds Betting Terminals, empower local authorities to limit the number of gambling venues, insist on the use of that power, end gambling on television, end the advertising of gambling other than at venues such as casinos and betting shops, and ban gambling with credit cards. There should be no further deregulation of Sunday trading.

We need to give any marrying couple the right to register their marriage as bound by the divorce law that obtained prior to 1969, give any religious organisation the right to specify that any marriage that it conducted would be so bound, give existing married couples the right to re-register their marriages as being so bound, and remove the restriction of civil partnerships to unrelated couples. The whole concept of gender self-identification should be banished.

We need to make it a criminal offence for anyone aged 21 or over to buy or sell sex, with equal sentencing on both sides.

We need a criminal offence of sexual activity with any person under the age of 18 who was more than two years younger than oneself, with a maximum sentence equal to twice the difference in age, abolition of different rules for “positions of trust”, and a ban on abortion or contraception for those under 18 at least without parental knowledge and consent.

A Stab In The Heartlands

Durham County Council was the first local authority that Labour ever won. It is the jewel in the crown of the Labour Far Right. 

Even Newcastle is giving free school meals this half-term holiday. Conservative Darlington is doing so. But not Durham.

George Galloway's taking of the Leader's seat, on the night that Labour lost Overall Control after more than a century, would establish the replacement of Labour in the heartlands.

Roger Liddle is both an active Labour Peer and an active member of Cumbria County Council, so being both an MSP for South Scotland, and a County Councillor in Durham, would be perfectly feasible.

Some MSPs have been members of councils that were either further from Edinburgh than Durham was, or far harder to reach than a couple of hours down the East Coast Main Line.

While the next elections to Durham County Council are due to be held on 6th May 2021, they are widely expected to be put back a year. The elections to the Scottish Parliament will have come and gone by then.

Dragon's Teeth?

The Vatican's deal with China has its faults. But its renewal has annoyed Mike Pompeo. So there is that. In Her time, the Church has allowed bishops to be selected by Protestant monarchs, by Orthodox Tsars, by the Ottoman Caliph of every Sunni Muslim in the world, and by Catholic monarchs who were nevertheless at war with the Papal States. Right now, the bishops in Alsace-Lorraine are selected by a French President who is sworn to secularism. These experiences have been mixed. But nothing in the arrangement with China is any worse. And the Church has always survived.

For decades, some of us have been fighting the very lonely fight against British funding of the Chinese population control programme, funding that the new China-haters do not wish to end, and a programme of which they broadly approve in principle. Uyghur women are forcibly sterilised because Chinese women in general are forcibly sterilised. Uyghur children are aborted on a staggering scale because Chinese children in general are aborted on a staggering scale, like British and American children. We pay for this, we have been paying for it forever, and the people who have suddenly discovered a "Uyghur genocide" want us to carry on paying for it.

No one denies the privations of the Uyghur. But of their "genocide", precious little evidence is ever produced. Those who expect us to take it on simple trust also claimed that 100,000 military age males had been murdered in Kosovo, that the attacks of 11th September 2001 had come from Afghanistan, that there had been weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, that those weapons had been capable of deployment within 45 minutes, that Saddam Hussein had been feeding people into a giant paper shredder, that he had been attempting to obtain uranium from Niger, that a genocide had been imminent in Benghazi, that Gaddafi had been feeding Viagra to his soldiers in order to encourage mass rape, that he had intended to flee to Venezuela, that Assad had gassed Ghouta as if that were an undisputed fact, and that a nerve agent had been used at Douma. 

They still claim, on no basis whatever, that there is such a thing as an Iranian nuclear weapons programme. They are entirely unable to explain what is, in their own terms, Novichok's death rate either of one person ever and then long after the event, or quite possibly of no one at all. And they are fanatical supporters, not to say paid beneficiaries, of this coal and lithium-rich country's wholly unnecessary relationship with Saudi Arabia, which is the only country in the world to inspire, fund and direct acts of terrorism right here on the streets of the United Kingdom. Every bullet sold to Saudi Arabia may as well be fired directly at a London pedestrian.

If these people are concerned about either Christians or Muslims in China, then they never have been before, and China is the only place where they are. Killing huge numbers of Muslims, while unleashing the savage persecution of Christians as such, has certainly never bothered them anywhere else, and it continues not to do so. Their rank hypocrisy about the sterilisation of Uyghur women but not of Chinese women in general, is matched by their rank hypocrisy about the lot of the Muslim women in Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf monarchies, and about the fate of the Muslim women whom they have handed over to the forces that have been emboldened or created by the removal of Saddam, of Gaddafi, and attemptedly of Assad.

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