Where My Life Has Been Meant To End Up

I was once sent review copies of Oliver Kamm's and Douglas Murray's respective books as a kind of job lot; as essentially a single work. Centrism and right-wing populism are both con tricks, each pretending to disagree with the other. The populism is in fact massively unpopular, while the centrism is thoroughly eccentric.

There will be a new thinktank called The Centre, to strengthen families and communities by securing economic equality and international peace through the democratic political control of the means to those ends, including national and parliamentary sovereignty. The Centre will eventually hold three conferences per year, and it will publish the papers. One conference will be held outside London, one in London, and one outside Britain. Initially, these will form a three-year cycle.

And not least in order to contribute to funding The Centre, there will be a new weekly magazine of news and comment. It will be in good, old-fashioned print, so that no boy in Silicon Valley will be able to press a button and close it down. I have worked out why print publications that were politically in line with popular opinion were not popular, and I know how to solve the problem. We expect a retail price of one pound.

The magazine will be up and running, and The Centre's first conference will at least have been booked, by the weekend beginning 14th June 2024, since on 19th June 2024, I am to return to Durham Crown Court to see whether the Crown had tracked down its star witness, a suspended Police Officer who had already caused my trial to collapse once due to his nonattendance. Yet even he is not the only person in the whole world to claim ever to have seen the offending blogposts. That is someone else entirely, whom the Crown does not want to call.

19th June 2024 will be 13 and a half months after I was arrested and charged, and 15 and a half months after I was accused. Give me seven months to fill, and I shall fill them. By the time that I saw you again for you to beg for another adjournment, then I shall be the Director of a serious thinktank, and the Proprietor and Editor of a major national weekly magazine of news and comment. I shall also be well into contesting my second General Election as a parliamentary candidate.

When I tell you that there is going to be a hung Parliament, then you can take that to the bank. I spent the 2005 Parliament saying that it was psephologically impossible for the Heir to Blair's Conservative Party to win an overall majority. I predicted a hung Parliament on the day that the 2017 General Election was called, and I stuck to that, entirely alone, all the way up to the publication of the exit poll eight long weeks later. And on the day that Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister, I predicted that a General Election between him and Keir Starmer would result in a hung Parliament.

To strengthen families and communities by securing economic equality and international peace through the democratic political control of the means to those ends, including national and parliamentary sovereignty, we need to hold the balance of power. Owing nothing to either main party, we must be open to the better offer. There does, however, need to be a better offer. Not a lesser evil, which in any case the Labour Party is not.