Sunday 25 April 2021

The Candidates Challenge: Day 17

Scroll down to page 37 here, and you will find the persons nominated for the Lanchester Ward of Durham County Council. One of them signed my nomination papers last time. See page 59 here for the fact that the Parish Council is an uncontested election, as in 2013. While in 2013 there were 15 candidates for 15 seats, this year there are only 14.

My challenge to each of the candidates for the Lanchester Ward of Durham County Council, and to each of the members of the incoming Lanchester Parish Council, is to state that they believed me to be guilty of the offences of which I was convicted on 12th March 2020, and of the offences for which I was due to be sentenced on 26th April, when I shall have the opportunity to vacate my pleas of guilty.

Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. A daily running total will appear here until polling day, 6th May. So far, that total is none.

Sentencing Watch: Day 21

On Monday 26th April, I am to be sentenced for three counts of harassment. Here are a few salient facts. 

First, I pleaded guilty because there is no defence to a charge of harassment. The crime consists in having made the other person feel harassed. If they testify to that effect, then conviction is absolutely guaranteed. In any case, it is tried in a Magistrates' Court, where legal argumentation of any kind would only antagonise those who had applied to convict and imprison people as a hobby. Even hangmen expected to be paid. But magistrates love it so much that they do it for free. In the second quarter of 2020, they convicted in 84.1 per cent of cases. Plead guilty and hope for the best. There is no other option.

Secondly, I gave my solicitors a defence by reference to my accusers' credibility, or lack of it, but I was told that that would have been "bullying the witness". My repeated requests for a barrister were simply ignored, presumably because Legal Aid did not stretch to such things, which would be a story in itself. I have, however, been given a barrister for sentencing, since you are allowed one once you are legally guilty. By contrast, since at one hearing he did have to correct himself after having called my solicitor "M'learned friend", the Prosecution appears to have had counsel throughout, also at public expense.

Thirdly, I was only ever told about two of these charges, one from before my previous trial (to which it was crucial, meaning that an acquittal would have called my existing conviction gravely into question), and the other from before my previous sentence. Although I have had to enter a guilty plea to it for the reasons already stated, I have no idea what the third charge is beyond the fact that it is of harassment, even though it is enough to land me eight months inside and eight months on licence by triggering my suspended sentence.

None of this seems to strike practitioners in the field as remotely odd. This is just the way that things are. But fourthly, your funny bone must have been removed if you do not find it amusing that someone who had once thought that he was going to be Prime Minister was now older than two Prime Ministers of his adult lifetime, but had nothing better to do than to persecute me through the courts. Although at least he is a worthy opponent, unlike some half-educated washerwoman.

Of course, the dear old Crown Prosecution Service does have to take up your claim of harassment in the first place. But even Crown Court juries are now expressly instructed to "disregard" the concept of conviction beyond reasonable doubt. The Criminal Courts are the means whereby the State convicts and sentences those whom the State has charged. That's it. They serve no other purpose.

This post will appear daily until I have been sentenced.

Perjury Watch: Day 45

On 12th March 2020, I was convicted at Durham Crown Court, in a physically impossible period of less than an hour to digest "evidence" that the State had granted itself three years to collect or manufacture.

If the judge had thought that I was guilty, then I would be in prison, and I would certainly not have been granted bail on the spot. 

But my present point is this. In order to be guilty of the offences in question, then I would also have to be guilty of perjury.

If I had still never even been arrested for perjury, then that would amount to a certification of my innocence by the professional wing of the criminal justice system.

I have never been arrested for perjury. This post will appear every day until I have been.

The Holden-Nut Nuts Challenge: Day 145

Richard Holden, Princess Nut Nuts testified against you at the trial at which you were acquitted, and since your election she has repeatedly blocked your promotion.

So why do you want the country to be run by her? This question will appear here every day until you have answered it.

Oliver Kamm Candidacy Watch: Day 151

Oliver Kamm, you consider that Richard Holden, Laura Pidcock and I are all unfit to be Members of Parliament.

In that case, then you need to announce your own parliamentary candidacy here at North West Durham. 

Put up or shut up. This post will appear daily until you do.

The Pidcock-Starmer Challenge: Day 160

Election to the National Executive Committee at Stage One is the stuff of Labour royalty, and 824 of Laura Pidcock's voters expressed no other preference.

Add quite that level of popularity within the party to the fact that she still lives here in North West Durham, and to the fact that she lost this seat by only 1,144 votes.

All in all, she is already the Labour candidate for North West Durham at the General Election of 2024. There is a certain amount of paperwork to be done, but it is nothing more than that.

Any Labour candidate at that Election will either believe that Keir Starmer ought to become Prime Minister, or will at least be pretending to believe that.

Laura is not the pretending type, so the question is this: Laura Pidcock, why do you want Keir Starmer to become Prime Minister?

Not, "Why do you want a Labour Government?" Why do you want Keir Starmer to become Prime Minister?

This question will appear here every day until you have answered it.

Suicide Watch: Day 183

The two of you who dragged me back to court, 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 183

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. I have been, and it is.

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.

Clergy Watch: Day 192

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 once again 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 262

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 293

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.

Forget The Northern Independence Party

I do not know whether or not it was printed, but this letter of mine was sent on Wednesday to the Hartlepool Mail:

The votes of the North of England were decisive for Leave in 2016. They were decisive for a hung Parliament in 2017, when the pro-Brexit and anti-austerity Labour Party would have won if its own staff had not sabotaged its efforts.

And they were decisive for the Conservatives in 2019 after Keir Starmer had bounced Labour into abandoning its commitment to Brexit, while Boris Johnson had at least officially made the Conservatives a party of large-scale public investment. 

Forget the Northern Independence Party. We who cast the decisive votes are not here to break away. We are here to take over.

We are here to strengthen the families and communities of our whole country by delivering economic equality and international peace through the democratic political control of the means to those ends, including national and parliamentary sovereignty.

Liable To Be Revoked

I do not know whether or not any of them has printed it, but this letter of mine was sent on Wednesday to the main Scottish newspapers:

Without entering into the issue of Shamima Begum, she was stripped of her British citizenship on the grounds that she would merely have been entitled to another nationality, whether or not she held it or wanted it.

In the event of Scottish independence, then many millions of us elsewhere in the United Kingdom, who had never lived in Scotland but who had Scottish family backgrounds, would become eligible for Scottish nationality.

Our British citizenship would thus become merely provisional, and liable to be revoked whenever the Home Secretary saw fit. Please vote for whoever was best placed to defeat the SNP in your constituency, and please give your list vote to All for Unity.

Truss Them Up, Boris

Liz Truss refused to tell Andrew Marr whether or not party donors had paid to refurbish the Prime Minister's flat. Clearly, she is positioning for what comes next. Yet everyone has always known about Boris Johnson, and there was an alternative available. Whatever else Jeremy Corbyn may have been, he was undeniably incorruptible. The electorate made its choice.

But the destruction of Corbyn served to establish Blairism as the only permissible political opinion, so the coup against Johnson was always going to come eventually. Had it not been for Covid-19, then it would have come a lot sooner than it has. Keir Starmer or Jess Phillips could be Prime Minister on alternate days with Truss or with Michael Gove, for all that anyone would be able to tell the difference.

Johnson should go for broke. He should declare out of the blue, so to speak, that at the next General Election, wherever the sitting MP was not going to be the Conservative Party candidate, by definition including every seat that that party did not already hold, then that candidate would have to have lived in that constituency throughout the 15 years prior to the General Election, and would have to be one of the 43 per cent of the adult population with an annual income not higher than £12,500.

Johnson should further declare that all candidates would be required to sign, literally sign by hand, commitments to the permanence of withdrawal from the European Union, of withdrawal from the Single Market, of withdrawal from the Customs Union, and of the monarchy. And he should challenge all other parties to match all of this.

A long-term resident of a remaining non-Conservative constituency, living there on an annual income of £12,500 or less? Plaid Cymru could match that in a few places, and those places are now highly competitive. But Keir Starmer's Labour Party? The Liberal Democrats? The Greens? The SNP? Well, there you are, then.

All Plaid Cymru, Green and Lib Dem candidates, most or all SNP ones, and most Labour ones, are going to be supporters in principle of Single Market and Customs Union membership, at least. All Plaid Cymru and Green candidates, most or all SNP ones, and most Lib Dem and Labour ones, are going to be either immediate republicans or "when the Queen dies" ones, and if the Queen lived to the end of the next Parliament, then she would be older than the Queen Mother had ever been. Frankly, what are the odds?

Not only that, but Remain was the Conservative Party's position at the 2016 referendum, it was Margaret Thatcher who signed the Single European Act, accession to the Customs Union was also why she was in the Cabinet, and republicanism is the logic of Thatcherism.

Far more Conservative MPs than is often realised remain both staunch Thatcherites in their support for the Single Market, and intellectually consistent ones in their desire to abolish the monarchy, even if only "when the Queen dies". And one would pay good money to see any of them try and live on £12,500 for a month, or in many cases for a week, never mind for a year. For example, Liz Truss.

Saturday 24 April 2021

The Candidates' Challenge: Day 16

Scroll down to page 37 here, and you will find the persons nominated for the Lanchester Ward of Durham County Council. One of them signed my nomination papers last time. See page 59 here for the fact that the Parish Council is an uncontested election, as in 2013. While in 2013 there were 15 candidates for 15 seats, this year there are only 14.

My challenge to each of the candidates for the Lanchester Ward of Durham County Council, and to each of the members of the incoming Lanchester Parish Council, is to state that they believed me to be guilty of the offences of which I was convicted on 12th March 2020, and of the offences for which I was due to be sentenced on 26th April, when I shall have the opportunity to vacate my pleas of guilty.

Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. A daily running total will appear here until polling day, 6th May. So far, that total is none.

Sentencing Watch: Day 20

On Monday 26th April, I am to be sentenced for three counts of harassment. Here are a few salient facts. 

First, I pleaded guilty because there is no defence to a charge of harassment. The crime consists in having made the other person feel harassed. If they testify to that effect, then conviction is absolutely guaranteed. In any case, it is tried in a Magistrates' Court, where legal argumentation of any kind would only antagonise those who had applied to convict and imprison people as a hobby. Even hangmen expected to be paid. But magistrates love it so much that they do it for free. In the second quarter of 2020, they convicted in 84.1 per cent of cases. Plead guilty and hope for the best. There is no other option.

Secondly, I gave my solicitors a defence by reference to my accusers' credibility, or lack of it, but I was told that that would have been "bullying the witness". My repeated requests for a barrister were simply ignored, presumably because Legal Aid did not stretch to such things, which would be a story in itself. I have, however, been given a barrister for sentencing, since you are allowed one once you are legally guilty. By contrast, since at one hearing he did have to correct himself after having called my solicitor "M'learned friend", the Prosecution appears to have had counsel throughout, also at public expense.

Thirdly, I was only ever told about two of these charges, one from before my previous trial (to which it was crucial, meaning that an acquittal would have called my existing conviction gravely into question), and the other from before my previous sentence. Although I have had to enter a guilty plea to it for the reasons already stated, I have no idea what the third charge is beyond the fact that it is of harassment, even though it is enough to land me eight months inside and eight months on licence by triggering my suspended sentence.

None of this seems to strike practitioners in the field as remotely odd. This is just the way that things are. But fourthly, your funny bone must have been removed if you do not find it amusing that someone who had once thought that he was going to be Prime Minister was now older than two Prime Ministers of his adult lifetime, but had nothing better to do than to persecute me through the courts. Although at least he is a worthy opponent, unlike some half-educated washerwoman.

Of course, the dear old Crown Prosecution Service does have to take up your claim of harassment in the first place. But even Crown Court juries are now expressly instructed to "disregard" the concept of conviction beyond reasonable doubt. The Criminal Courts are the means whereby the State convicts and sentences those whom the State has charged. That's it. They serve no other purpose.

This post will appear daily until I have been sentenced.

Perjury Watch: Day 44

On 12th March 2020, I was convicted at Durham Crown Court, in a physically impossible period of less than an hour to digest "evidence" that the State had granted itself three years to collect or manufacture.

If the judge had thought that I was guilty, then I would be in prison, and I would certainly not have been granted bail on the spot. 

But my present point is this. In order to be guilty of the offences in question, then I would also have to be guilty of perjury.

If I had still never even been arrested for perjury, then that would amount to a certification of my innocence by the professional wing of the criminal justice system.

I have never been arrested for perjury. This post will appear every day until I have been.

The Holden-Nut Nuts Challenge: Day 144

Richard Holden, Princess Nut Nuts testified against you at the trial at which you were acquitted, and since your election she has repeatedly blocked your promotion.

So why do you want the country to be run by her? This question will appear here every day until you have answered it.

Oliver Kamm Candidacy Watch: Day 150

Oliver Kamm, you consider that Richard Holden, Laura Pidcock and I are all unfit to be Members of Parliament.

In that case, then you need to announce your own parliamentary candidacy here at North West Durham. 

Put up or shut up. This post will appear daily until you do.

The Pidcock-Starmer Challenge: Day 159

Election to the National Executive Committee at Stage One is the stuff of Labour royalty, and 824 of Laura Pidcock's voters expressed no other preference.

Add quite that level of popularity within the party to the fact that she still lives here in North West Durham, and to the fact that she lost this seat by only 1,144 votes.

All in all, she is already the Labour candidate for North West Durham at the General Election of 2024. There is a certain amount of paperwork to be done, but it is nothing more than that.

Any Labour candidate at that Election will either believe that Keir Starmer ought to become Prime Minister, or will at least be pretending to believe that.

Laura is not the pretending type, so the question is this: Laura Pidcock, why do you want Keir Starmer to become Prime Minister?

Not, "Why do you want a Labour Government?" Why do you want Keir Starmer to become Prime Minister?

This question will appear here every day until you have answered it.

Suicide Watch: Day 182

The two of you who dragged me back to court, 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 182

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. I have been, and it is.

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.

Clergy Watch: Day 191

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 once again 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 261

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 292

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.

It Will Spread Across The Whole Sky


The collapse of the once-free West into a conformist wasteland is grim enough by itself, for anyone who believes in free thought and assembly.

There are so many things that it is now impossible to discuss without being driven into the wilderness. Dissent on these subjects – you know what they are, though there will soon be more – is a suicide mission, which can even bring the police to your door. 

And I suppose for most people this is just a nuisance on the edge of life. But the Green Dogma – which has taken over every major government on the planet, and is now pretty much accepted by all media, publishing houses and educational bodies – is different. Anyone who challenges or doubts it might as well build his own guillotine, stick his head in the hole and drop the blade on his own neck.

So I won’t do that. The kamikaze life is not for me. I’ll just say two things. The British Government’s policy on climate change doesn’t even make sense on its own terms. And it is going to affect you personally whether you have an opinion on it or not.

For reasons I have never discovered, our Government is more rigid about this than almost any other. Unlike many advanced countries, we have written our carbon-reduction targets into law, making it much harder to pull out of them if things get tough.

So far, the main thing we have done is to close perfectly good coal-fired power stations. Well, you might say, so much the better for the atmosphere. But China, with vast, newly discovered coalfields in Inner Mongolia, keeps opening such stations. In fact, China’s coal-fired power generation is more than ten times bigger than Britain’s entire electricity output from all sources.

It is not just China. India is also a greedy consumer of coal to make electricity. Both countries make airy promises that one day they will stop doing this, but as long as they carry on, our efforts make as much difference as trying to empty the Atlantic with a teaspoon.

It is sheer deluded vanity to think that the rest of the world looks on us as an example. Few now care what we do, let alone copy it. Our economic rivals only snigger behind their hands at our dogged self-harm.

To continue this course, we are going to have to cut our huge consumption of gas, not just to run power stations, but in large numbers of homes. If we press on with our plans to be green, then millions of us face being told we must replace our gas boilers with costly and less efficient heat-pumps.

Ferocious insulation rules will make it harder and harder to sell older houses. As for transport, it is just going to get more expensive and less convenient. And now they want to make us change our diets too.

At the moment, in most people’s lives, this is still a small cloud no bigger than a man’s hand, far away on the horizon. But you will find as the years drag on that it will spread across the whole sky.

My guess is that it is the means by which we in the West will join the Third World, finally and irrevocably. How amusing that this should be brought about by a government that calls itself Conservative, and claims to be patriotic.

Scrap This Misbegotten Piece of Political Trickery

Nick Cohen, of all people, writes:

How far towards rogue statehood can Britain go? As of now, the answer is that the government will offer a statutory presumption against prosecution after five years to members of the armed forces accused of murdering civilians or wounding civilians or committing any other war crime covered by the Geneva conventions. But it will not offer a pass to troops accused of sexually abusing or forcing confessions from civilians.

It will give a de facto amnesty for murder but draw the line at torture and rape. I’m sure you’re relieved ministers have some standards. To show they are the moral leaders of the nation, they added they would also remove their exemptions for prosecutions for genocide. Yes to the odd murder, but no to mass murder.

Until last Tuesday, when George Robertson, the former secretary-general of Nato, led a revolt in the House of Lords, the Johnson administration’s position was that alleged war criminals had a presumption against prosecution for torturing and murdering women, but on no account must they rape them.

Last week’s partial retreat came after every retired general, admiral and military judge you can name warned the Conservatives they risked bringing “the UK armed forces into disrepute”.

By tomorrow, the retreat may be a rout. Robertson suspects the Johnson administration does not know what it’s doing – a hypothesis you should never discount. It may agree to remove the statute of limitations on war crimes in its overseas operations bill, along with the exemptions for torture and genocide, in the hope of getting something – anything – through parliament before the bill runs out of time.

It is worth registering that the retreat has not been caused by every important military thinker saying, in the words of former chief of the defence staff, field marshal Lord Guthrie, the bill “would increase the danger to British soldiers if Britain is perceived as reluctant to act in accordance with long-established international law”.

If ministers listened to the generals, they’d never have considered this measure. My guess is that they are learning that populism has consequences; that when you beat your chest and thump your tub, mobs aren’t the only people you incite. 

The perpetrators of war crimes are licking their lips. On 15 April, the Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson, Zhao Lijian, was asked about the UN high commissioner for human rights warning that the bill “risks undermining key human rights obligations”.

The communist party’s propagandist replied: “Some western countries, including the UK, are in the habit of politicising human rights issues and applying double standards.” Last Thursday, the Commons declared China’s persecution of the Uyghurs to be “genocide”. 

Until the Tuesday of that very week, the government was offering a presumption against prosecutions for genocide. The thought that no rogue soldier or group of soldiers would have the firepower to commit genocide had not occurred to ministers. They went ahead and offered aid and comfort to this country’s enemies regardless.

If the government is all over the place, so is a large section of the political nation. Steve Crawshaw, from the Freedom from Torture campaign, told me it was “truly extraordinary that there has been so little discussion of these beyond-pernicious proposals for torture impunity”.

The absence of debate is more surprising because – Brexit aside – I know of no better example of how populist causes take off, abandon their supporters and betray the best interests of their country.

Veterans have a genuine grievance. In the 2010s, the disgraced UK lawyer Phil Shiner made thousands of allegations against British soldiers who served in Iraq in the hope of winning compensation for “victims” and fees for himself. 

The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal struck him off for spreading “deliberate lies” with the help of “sweeteners” to an Iraqi middleman. (Liberty and the Law Society had previously named Shiner “solicitor of the year”, which can only have added to veterans’ incredulity.) Yet as I said last year, the government is offering nothing to make the prosecution of fraudulent lawyers easier.

In Johnny Mercer, the Conservatives had a political entrepreneur ready to turn legitimate complaint into political capital. The Conservative MP and former army captain took up the cause with full tabloid backing.

Although Johnson has not yet put the military top brass alongside the judiciary, BBC management and the senior civil service as villains from the out-of-touch elite, Mercer had no qualms. His arguments struck me as echoes of junior officers attempting a coup in today’s Africa, or 1930s Japan. He puffed himself up and said he was “dealing with people who have been through these investigations, not the generals at the top of the organisation”.

The squaddies’ friend, then, who stuck by men and women the high command ignored. Why then did the bill he oversaw as defence minister cut veterans’ rights to bring civil claims for injury suffered in service? Did he miss those clauses?

When Mercer resigned last week, even broadcasters who owed him nothing delighted in his attacks on the government for living in a “cesspit” – it does, but that’s not point. Or they accepted his claim he was resigning over the treatment of Northern Ireland veterans, even though and self-evidently his overseas operations bill is for veterans who served overseas, and Northern Ireland is a part of the UK. 

Few mentioned that his attempt to limit the rule of law and equality before the law was falling apart at home and abroad. Whatever concessions the government makes tomorrow, those principles will still be compromised. Veterans will still have a legal system separate from everyone else. China and Russia will still use the bill to taunt the UK.

Better to scrap this misbegotten piece of political trickery. If ministers say they promised to help veterans in their manifesto, remind them they also promised not to cut overseas aid and that pledge didn’t last five minutes. Tell them they might try instead to break with precedent and adequately fund their new mental health service for veterans.

Suggest they offer psychiatric support to the parliamentary Conservative party as well, when and if their shrinks are willing to take on a real basket case.

Sales Pitch

Moving football clubs to majority ownership by their supporters ought not now to prove too difficult, since as assets as they have become unsaleable. After this week, then why would anyone buy them?

"You will own this global brand, of course, but it won't mean anything like what you are thinking. Of the hundreds of millions of fans, if the tiny proportion that lived within an hour of the ground took to the streets to demand the last word, then they would always get it, even if the Government had to promise to legislate in order to give it to them."

That is not much of a prospectus. State purchase of 50 per cent plus one, leading to the immediate transfer of control of that stake to the season ticket holders, would now be a formality.

Strait Talking

Oman is the last princely state of the British Empire, so of course it has an almost entirely British Privy Council with Alan Duncan on it. Indeed, everyone on it is exactly whom one would expect.

Even Jordan and the United Arab Emirates have passed as much into the American as the British sphere of influence. But Oman is practically a British colony.

Between 1957 and 1959, the RAF and the SAS were sent in to put down a rebellion in central Oman around Imam Ghalib Alhinai and against Britain's client, Sultan Said bin Taimur. Then Britain just never left.

When another rebellion broke out, this time in the southern province of Dhofar, and when it looked as if the Sultan might not defeat it, then MI6, the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Defence arranged to have the entirely British Officer Corps of the Sultan's Armed Forces replace him with his son.

Having been planned under Harold Wilson but signed off by Ted Heath, the coup was bloodless in the end. But it was staged as part of a British war that lasted for at least 14 years, yet which seems to have been forgotten despite having been one of the most important of the twentieth century, since it secured control of the Strait of Hormuz.

Britain began that war under a Conservative Government, and continued it under a Labour one, then under another Conservative one, and then under another Labour one. It was waged by a least four Prime Ministers, one of them twice. Yet who remembers it now?

Two important, but baleful, trends overlap here: the national amnesia about all Interwar and most post-War British conflicts, and the writing of Maoism out of the history of what is neatly misrepresented as "the Cold War". But Britain did win the war in Oman, and the place has been a giant British military and intelligence compound ever since.

Oman plays host to the three GCHQ bases of Timpani, Guitar and Clarinet, which tap into the undersea cables that pass through the Strait, before obediently passing on their findings to the United States National Security Agency. There is the British military base at Duqm. There is the Omani-British Joint Training Area. There is the training role of the Police Service of Northern Ireland. And so on.

So yes, Alan Duncan is on the Privy Council of Iran. Along with past and present Chiefs of MI6, past and present Chiefs of the Defence Staff, senior advisers to our own Royal Family, and a former Governor of the Bank of England. How could they possibly not be?

Integrity and Competence?

Last seen under Tony Blair, Britain's real governing party is the Court Party of those whose influence derives from picking up the tab for the Prime Minister's lifestyle, or (unlike Blair) from sleeping with him, or both. But everyone always knew that that would be the case under Boris Johnson.

If integrity and competence were your thing, then you would never have voted for Johnson the first place. But in that full knowledge, more than enough people did. And more than enough people will again. Yet everything is being put into place to follow the Conservative Party's triumphant results at the forthcoming local elections and at the Hartlepool by-election with a coup against its Leader.

Rather than allow the second term and the three figure majority for which Johnson was well on course, those who were organising around Michael Gove would be perfectly happy to see Keir Starmer as Prime Minister in some kind of arrangement with the Liberal Democrats and the Greens, since those were all much more their sort of people, and since such a Government would have plenty of advisory roles for them.

Could they get away with it? Why not? Reform UK will be lucky to get one per cent at Hartlepool, Laurence Fox will be lucky to get one per cent in London, and as for the Left, it has not even begun to recover from the destruction of Jeremy Corbyn. That destruction established that only the Gove-Starmer position was permissible in British politics. Those on the Right who helped to sow that wind are now about to reap the whirlwind. Indeed, they have already begun to do so.

The Boat Ashore, Hallelujah?

Oh, yes, Michael Gove is behind all of this. Of course he is. But he has nothing like Boris Johnson's appeal where it now matters.

A General Election between Gove and Keir Starmer, who lacks any such appeal whatever, would result in a hung Parliament.

Not One Stone Left Upon Another?

Although at least they are not going to be doing it tonight, the men who have been rampaging through East Jerusalem are Lehava.

Under Bentzi Gopstein, Lehava is notable for its view that Jews are under a religious obligation to burn down churches, for its call to ban all personal and business relations between Jews and Gentiles in Greater Israel, and for its demand that all observance of Christmas be outlawed there, with all Christians expelled from the territory.

Such are the people whom you could probably now be prosecuted in England and Wales for criticising; I look forward to that addition to my charge sheet. Such are the people criticism of whom would certainly now be expulsionable from the Labour Party.

And such are the people with whom Keir Starmer would share a meal on Zoom. Although they would not share one with him. They believe that, for having married him, his Jewish wife deserves to be stoned.

Friday 23 April 2021

The Candidates' Challenge: Day 15

Scroll down to page 37 here, and you will find the persons nominated for the Lanchester Ward of Durham County Council. One of them signed my nomination papers last time. See page 59 here for the fact that the Parish Council is an uncontested election, as in 2013. While in 2013 there were 15 candidates for 15 seats, this year there are only 14.

My challenge to each of the candidates for the Lanchester Ward of Durham County Council, and to each of the members of the incoming Lanchester Parish Council, is to state that they believed me to be guilty of the offences of which I was convicted on 12th March 2020, and of the offences for which I was due to be sentenced on 26th April, when I shall have the opportunity to vacate my pleas of guilty.

Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. A daily running total will appear here until polling day, 6th May. So far, that total is none.

Sentencing Watch: Day 19

On Monday 26th April, I am to be sentenced for three counts of harassment. Here are a few salient facts. 

First, I pleaded guilty because there is no defence to a charge of harassment. The crime consists in having made the other person feel harassed. If they testify to that effect, then conviction is absolutely guaranteed. In any case, it is tried in a Magistrates' Court, where legal argumentation of any kind would only antagonise those who had applied to convict and imprison people as a hobby. Even hangmen expected to be paid. But magistrates love it so much that they do it for free. In the second quarter of 2020, they convicted in 84.1 per cent of cases. Plead guilty and hope for the best. There is no other option.

Secondly, I gave my solicitors a defence by reference to my accusers' credibility, or lack of it, but I was told that that would have been "bullying the witness". My repeated requests for a barrister were simply ignored, presumably because Legal Aid did not stretch to such things, which would be a story in itself. I have, however, been given a barrister for sentencing, since you are allowed one once you are legally guilty. By contrast, since at one hearing he did have to correct himself after having called my solicitor "M'learned friend", the Prosecution appears to have had counsel throughout, also at public expense.

Thirdly, I was only ever told about two of these charges, one from before my previous trial (to which it was crucial, meaning that an acquittal would have called my existing conviction gravely into question), and the other from before my previous sentence. Although I have had to enter a guilty plea to it for the reasons already stated, I have no idea what the third charge is beyond the fact that it is of harassment, even though it is enough to land me eight months inside and eight months on licence by triggering my suspended sentence.

None of this seems to strike practitioners in the field as remotely odd. This is just the way that things are. But fourthly, your funny bone must have been removed if you do not find it amusing that someone who had once thought that he was going to be Prime Minister was now older than two Prime Ministers of his adult lifetime, but had nothing better to do than to persecute me through the courts. Although at least he is a worthy opponent, unlike some half-educated washerwoman.

Of course, the dear old Crown Prosecution Service does have to take up your claim of harassment in the first place. But even Crown Court juries are now expressly instructed to "disregard" the concept of conviction beyond reasonable doubt. The Criminal Courts are the means whereby the State convicts and sentences those whom the State has charged. That's it. They serve no other purpose.

This post will appear daily until I have been sentenced.

Perjury Watch: Day 43

On 12th March 2020, I was convicted at Durham Crown Court, in a physically impossible period of less than an hour to digest "evidence" that the State had granted itself three years to collect or manufacture.

If the judge had thought that I was guilty, then I would be in prison, and I would certainly not have been granted bail on the spot. 

But my present point is this. In order to be guilty of the offences in question, then I would also have to be guilty of perjury.

If I had still never even been arrested for perjury, then that would amount to a certification of my innocence by the professional wing of the criminal justice system.

I have never been arrested for perjury. This post will appear every day until I have been.

The Holden-Nut Nuts Challenge: Day 143

Richard Holden, Princess Nut Nuts testified against you at the trial at which you were acquitted, and since your election she has repeatedly blocked your promotion.

So why do you want the country to be run by her? This question will appear here every day until you have answered it.

Oliver Kamm Candidacy Watch: Day 149

Oliver Kamm, you consider that Richard Holden, Laura Pidcock and I are all unfit to be Members of Parliament.

In that case, then you need to announce your own parliamentary candidacy here at North West Durham. 

Put up or shut up. This post will appear daily until you do.

The Pidcock-Starmer Challenge: Day 158

Election to the National Executive Committee at Stage One is the stuff of Labour royalty, and 824 of Laura Pidcock's voters expressed no other preference.

Add quite that level of popularity within the party to the fact that she still lives here in North West Durham, and to the fact that she lost this seat by only 1,144 votes.

All in all, she is already the Labour candidate for North West Durham at the General Election of 2024. There is a certain amount of paperwork to be done, but it is nothing more than that.

Any Labour candidate at that Election will either believe that Keir Starmer ought to become Prime Minister, or will at least be pretending to believe that.

Laura is not the pretending type, so the question is this: Laura Pidcock, why do you want Keir Starmer to become Prime Minister?

Not, "Why do you want a Labour Government?" Why do you want Keir Starmer to become Prime Minister?

This question will appear here every day until you have answered it.

Suicide Watch: Day 181

The two of you who dragged me back to court, 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 181

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. I have been, and it is.

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.

Clergy Watch: Day 190

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 once again 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 260

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 291

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.

Cummings To Get Him

People move to London and adopt the local culture. Dominic Cummings has taken up stabbing.

Just as we all need to get behind Julian Assange, first to contest Holborn and St Pancras against Keir Starmer, and then to win, so we all need to get behind Cummings, first to contest Uxbridge and South Ruislip against Boris Johnson, and then to win.

The View From The Cage

The late Lord Sacks once also led a march through East Jerusalem chanting, "Death to the Arabs!"

And by order of the Board of Deputies, Keir Starmer is not permitted to share a Zoom call with people who prefer not to buy dates from Israeli settlements on the West Bank

Meaning that the Labour Party is more or less marching through East Jerusalem while chanting "Death to the Arabs!" simply by continuing to exist at all. Mercifully, it barely does exist anymore.

On The Horizon

The subpostmasters and subpostmistresses could not have been more obviously innocent, yet there was still more evidence against them than there has ever been against me for anything.

As the corruption of the Cameron Government, and of its long and ongoing afterlife, comes more and more to light, so attention should be turned to the larceny of the Royal Mail.

That was pretty much given away to the likes of George Osborne's best man, and it has come to be owned largely by the Emir of Kuwait, to whom the "Royal" in its name presumably now refers.

Happy Saint George's Day

Like Saint Andrew's Day, Saint David's Day and Saint Patrick's Day, this ought to be a public holiday throughout the United Kingdom. Away with pointless celebrations of the mere fact that the banks are on holiday.

Yes, that was a Labour manifesto commitment in 2017 and in 2019. I am very glad that it was. But I had been saying it for more than 20 years. Admittedly, that was also true of several other things that were in the Labour manifestos of 2017 and 2019.

It is amazing how many people assume that because there is a legend about Saint George, then he himself must be a purely legendary figure. He is not. Although the Tomb of Saint George at his birthplace, which is now known as Lod and which is the location of Israel's principal airport, has become a shadow of its former self.

It was once a major focus of unity between Christians and Muslims in devotion to the Patron Saint of Palestine, Lebanon and Egypt before, and as much as, the Patron Saint of England. But three quarters of those who practised that devotion were violently expelled in 1948. On what remains, see here.

Commonwealth, Indeed

I had forgotten about that. When Thaksin Shinawatra sold Manchester City to Sheikh Mansour, then one of the selling points was the extremely low rent on the new stadium. That stadium had been built for the 2002 Commonwealth Games. At public expense. After this week, these people need quite a few of these little reminders.

There is something rather European-sounding about many features of the organisation of top flight sport in the United States. The equal distribution of revenue, the restrictions on the marketing of merchandise, the hard salary caps, the very extensive welfare provision, the requirement that changes of ownership be approved by every club in the league: you would easily believe that those were the rules that bound Bayern Munich or Paris Saint-Germain.

Along with the German model of supporter ownership of 50 per cent plus one of the company, but requiring far less legislative effort to make it happen, the Statute Law should now extend to these shores those features of the land of Stan Kroenke, John W. Henry, and the Glazers. The Big Six, among others, are well looked after because they are socially and culturally important. Well, there has been a deal implicit in that. Clearly, it now needs to be made explicit.

Thursday 22 April 2021

Paper Tigers

On the same night, a fortnight hence, Laurence Fox is going to get no more than one per cent in London, while Reform UK is going to get no more than one per cent in Hartlepool. Yet look at our official media, the people who have access to the Lobby and to the airwaves.

Half of them lavish attention on the self-appointed voices of this clearly nonexistent electoral bloc. The other half gushed over Change UK before first gushing over Keir Starmer because they thought that that was he was, and then beginning to carp because he might not be.

Either way, though, Starmer is a loser, and objectively a bigger loser than his predecessor. If you say that it takes one to know one, then perhaps it does. Starmer is a loser. Change UK were losers. Reform UK are losers. Fox is a loser. And we need media that treat them as such. The kind that have access to the Lobby and to the airwaves.

The Candidates' Challenge: Day 14

Scroll down to page 37 here, and you will find the persons nominated for the Lanchester Ward of Durham County Council. One of them signed my nomination papers last time. See page 59 here for the fact that the Parish Council is an uncontested election, as in 2013. While in 2013 there were 15 candidates for 15 seats, this year there are only 14.

My challenge to each of the candidates for the Lanchester Ward of Durham County Council, and to each of the members of the incoming Lanchester Parish Council, is to state that they believed me to be guilty of the offences of which I was convicted on 12th March 2020, and of the offences for which I was due to be sentenced on 26th April, when I shall have the opportunity to vacate my pleas of guilty.

Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. A daily running total will appear here until polling day, 6th May. So far, that total is none.

Sentencing Watch: Day 18

On Monday 26th April, I am to be sentenced for three counts of harassment. Here are a few salient facts. 

First, I pleaded guilty because there is no defence to a charge of harassment. The crime consists in having made the other person feel harassed. If they testify to that effect, then conviction is absolutely guaranteed. In any case, it is tried in a Magistrates' Court, where legal argumentation of any kind would only antagonise those who had applied to convict and imprison people as a hobby. Even hangmen expected to be paid. But magistrates love it so much that they do it for free. In the second quarter of 2020, they convicted in 84.1 per cent of cases. Plead guilty and hope for the best. There is no other option.

Secondly, I gave my solicitors a defence by reference to my accusers' credibility, or lack of it, but I was told that that would have been "bullying the witness". My repeated requests for a barrister were simply ignored, presumably because Legal Aid did not stretch to such things, which would be a story in itself. I have, however, been given a barrister for sentencing, since you are allowed one once you are legally guilty. By contrast, since at one hearing he did have to correct himself after having called my solicitor "M'learned friend", the Prosecution appears to have had counsel throughout, also at public expense.

Thirdly, I was only ever told about two of these charges, one from before my previous trial (to which it was crucial, meaning that an acquittal would have called my existing conviction gravely into question), and the other from before my previous sentence. Although I have had to enter a guilty plea to it for the reasons already stated, I have no idea what the third charge is beyond the fact that it is of harassment, even though it is enough to land me eight months inside and eight months on licence by triggering my suspended sentence.

None of this seems to strike practitioners in the field as remotely odd. This is just the way that things are. But fourthly, your funny bone must have been removed if you do not find it amusing that someone who had once thought that he was going to be Prime Minister was now older than two Prime Ministers of his adult lifetime, but had nothing better to do than to persecute me through the courts. Although at least he is a worthy opponent, unlike some half-educated washerwoman.

Of course, the dear old Crown Prosecution Service does have to take up your claim of harassment in the first place. But even Crown Court juries are now expressly instructed to "disregard" the concept of conviction beyond reasonable doubt. The Criminal Courts are the means whereby the State convicts and sentences those whom the State has charged. That's it. They serve no other purpose.

This post will appear daily until I have been sentenced.

Perjury Watch: Day 42

On 12th March 2020, I was convicted at Durham Crown Court, in a physically impossible period of less than an hour to digest "evidence" that the State had granted itself three years to collect or manufacture.

If the judge had thought that I was guilty, then I would be in prison, and I would certainly not have been granted bail on the spot. 

But my present point is this. In order to be guilty of the offences in question, then I would also have to be guilty of perjury.

If I had still never even been arrested for perjury, then that would amount to a certification of my innocence by the professional wing of the criminal justice system.

I have never been arrested for perjury. This post will appear every day until I have been.

The Holden-Nut Nuts Challenge: Day 142

Richard Holden, Princess Nut Nuts testified against you at the trial at which you were acquitted, and since your election she has repeatedly blocked your promotion.

So why do you want the country to be run by her? This question will appear here every day until you have answered it.

Oliver Kamm Candidacy Watch: Day 148

Oliver Kamm, you consider that Richard Holden, Laura Pidcock and I are all unfit to be Members of Parliament.

In that case, then you need to announce your own parliamentary candidacy here at North West Durham. 

Put up or shut up. This post will appear daily until you do.

The Pidcock-Starmer Challenge: Day 157

Election to the National Executive Committee at Stage One is the stuff of Labour royalty, and 824 of Laura Pidcock's voters expressed no other preference.

Add quite that level of popularity within the party to the fact that she still lives here in North West Durham, and to the fact that she lost this seat by only 1,144 votes.

All in all, she is already the Labour candidate for North West Durham at the General Election of 2024. There is a certain amount of paperwork to be done, but it is nothing more than that.

Any Labour candidate at that Election will either believe that Keir Starmer ought to become Prime Minister, or will at least be pretending to believe that.

Laura is not the pretending type, so the question is this: Laura Pidcock, why do you want Keir Starmer to become Prime Minister?

Not, "Why do you want a Labour Government?" Why do you want Keir Starmer to become Prime Minister?

This question will appear here every day until you have answered it.

Suicide Watch: Day 180

The two of you who dragged me back to court, 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 180

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. I have been, and it is.

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.

Clergy Watch: Day 189

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 once again 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 259

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 290

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.

Carbon, Capture

Nine Extinction Rebellion activists have been arrested for smashing windows at HSBC's London office. There is no good dog in this fight. 

HSBC is a thoroughly Blairite company, if its Head of Media Relations UK is anything to go by. I have had the displeasure of his acquaintance for 32 years. Before becoming the reputation launderer to those who laundered the money of the Mexican and Colombian drug cartels, then he was London Regional Director of the Labour Party (he quit because he hated Jeremy Corbyn), he was Head of Press and Media for the Labour Party, and he was Chief of Staff to the Government Chief Whip at the time of the Iraq War. 

As for Extinction Rebellion, it goes back 36 years. Do you think that Britain would have ended up like this if the miners had won? My favourite question to Greens is, "Do you regret the defeat of the miners in 1985?" It always stops them in their tracks. And I have the same question for post-Thatcherite culture warriors, "Do regret the defeat of the miners in 1985?" If not, then I can give you chapter and verse as to why you do not really regret the loss of any of things that you claim to, although you might sincerely believe that you do.

Although she began to blather on about environmentalism as a means of Socialist control once she had the dementia that also turned her into a born again Eurosceptic, Margaret Thatcher was very Green indeed as Prime Minister, shocking first the Royal Society, and then the United Nations General Assembly, with her passion on the subject. Next up, her milk-snatching as a pioneering strike against the wicked dairy industry. Don't laugh, it could happen.