Born To Run?

While David Lammy is propagating his legally and morally baseless theory that a genocide required the magic number of one million deaths, the CV fabricator and published plagiarist Rachel Reeves has now claimed that she had resigned from Jeremy Corbyn’s Shadow Cabinet. Of course, she was never in it. And the once even more absurdly overpromoted Liz Truss has been treating us to her pearls of wisdom about the Budget. Truss may be known mostly for a speech about pork markets and cheese, but she is a disciple of Professor Patrick Minford, who wants Britain to have no agriculture, as would indeed be the “free” market in action. I used to call for Truss and Minford to be made to defend that position on the stump in South West Norfolk, but the desired effect turned out not to need them to do so. Still, with the controversy about this Budget being largely to do with farmers, she should still be asked about it.

What does Truss do? What has any of them ever done? The old “never run a business” line is being thrown at this admittedly unimpressive Cabinet, but there have been 15 Leaders of the Conservative Party since the War, and beyond shareholding, or being married to businessmen, none of them has had any business background worth mentioning, if at all. They have had stopgap jobs and what have you, but nothing more than that, and not even that in some cases. Nearly half have been beneficiaries of the massive public subsidies to landowning. Winston Churchill, toff. Anthony Eden, toff. Harold Macmillan, toff enough. Alec Douglas-Home, toffee toffee toff toff. Ted Heath, full-time politician since university. Margaret Thatcher, millionaire’s wife. John Major, full-time politician all his adult life.

William Hague, full-time politician since childhood. Iain Duncan Smith, paid by the Army to go away, and another one with a fake CV and in his case even name. Michael Howard, full-time politician since university, more than 40 years earlier. David Cameron, toff. Theresa May, millionaire’s wife. Boris Johnson, unaccomplished, semi-aristocratic Classicist whom none of his hearers at the CBI would have employed even before he had extolled to them the virtues of Peppa Pig World. Truss, failed at Shell, and then unemployed for several years before a sinecure at a thinktank enabled her to sleep her way into Parliament. And Rishi Sunak, briefly at Goldman Sachs before he became the full-time son-in-law of a foreign gazillionaire. They have no more made a living the hard way than Keir Starmer ever has.

As for the candidates to succeed Sunak, Kemi Badenoch hacked Harriet Harman’s website, an act that carried a potential prison sentence of five years when she did it, and that is about it unless anyone can find anything else that she did before politics, while Robert Jenrick was a jobbing corporate solicitor who ought now to be struck off for his remarks about a live criminal case. And that is before we start about his shenanigans with Richard Desmond and the Isle of Dogs, a story that ought to be far better-known. In 48 hours’ time, one of Badenoch and Jenrick will be the Leader of His Majesty’s Most Loyal Opposition, and the members of the Conservative Party will not be to blame. These were the candidates presented to them by their party’s MPs, left to whom one of them would presumably have been Leader for months by now. Run a business? No one concerned could run a bath.

Strictly Off The Record: Day 12

If you are Douglas McKean, then Oliver Kamm is convinced that you and I are one and the same. I hate to have to tell you that I have never heard of you. He first contacted me about this at lunchtime on 4 July, so General Election day was obviously slow on The Times, and he has promised to involve the Police, from whom I have heard nothing. Anyone with news of any developments, do please contact davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Strictly off the record, of course.

Also please contact davidaslindsay@hotmail.com with any news on the case of Fr Timothy Gardner OP, which was supposed to have been heard at Newcastle Crown Court in July, but of which I can find no trace. While this is not the only arrow in my quiver, unless Fr Gardner was convicted, then the latest accusations against me have absolutely no credibility, and nor does the propensity evidence that alone secured my conviction in 2020, to breach of the suspended sentence for which I wrongly pleaded guilty in 2021, leading to my imprisonment. Fr Gardner's non-conviction is not the only thing that could vindicate me. But it would do so. Any information would therefore be most gratefully received. Again, strictly off the record, of course.

This post will appear daily until further notice.

Justice Delayed: Day 117

Even assuming, and it was far from clear, that the Crown had presented any evidence whatever on the morning of Wednesday 19 June, then no later than the afternoon of Thursday 20 June, I would have been found not guilty unanimously in the time that it took to walk to the jury room and send a note to the judge. On Monday 6 November, the only Prosecution witness did not turn up, having been suspended from the Police. Since then, he has been "asked to resign" because of his conduct of my case. On Friday 14 June, my barrister formally complained.

Lo and behold, on the morning of Sunday 16 June, enough Police Officers turned up at my door to take down an al-Qaeda cell, and behaved roughly as if that were what they were doing. Everyone is laughing, and not at me. Late that night, a nonsense additional charge, quite different from the stated grounds of the arrest, was added, with no expectation that it could possibly stick, but in order to postpone what would have been that week's open-and-shut acquittal. Be at Durham Crown Court on Wednesday 26 February 2025, almost exactly two years, although we dispute the timeline, after the original complaint was allegedly made. When I shall be found not guilty. But the process is the punishment.

Rather than embarrass itself any further, the Crown did not even ask for me to be remanded. Nor did it dispute that the Police had found nothing on my laptop or on my phone, even though the latest allegation therefore cannot be true. And nor did it dispute that its only witness had been sacked from the Police because of my case, or that this latest action against me was a revenge attack for my barrister's complaint, both of which are now on Monday 17 June's record of Newton Aycliffe Magistrates' Court, as is the cleanliness of my devices, of which the Police are nevertheless keeping possession, requiring me to replace them at considerable expense.

I wish that my solicitor had used such terms as "Mafia hit" and "punishment beating". I am using them now. This is a punishment beating for the sacked policeman. And it is a Mafia hit by some Fredo Corleone, because the latest complaint was supposedly made before I had withdrawn from the General Election, a withdrawal that has rendered it pointless in its own terms. Other than the unpaid position to which I was elected unopposed well over a year ago, and which has therefore been kept vacant ever since, I have no intention of contesting another election to public office.

Welcome to the Starmer State, which institutional Britain has treated as the status quo since Keir Starmer became Labour Leader. I am not the only dissident that it persecutes, and things are already getting an awful lot worse now that Starmer is Prime Minister.

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The Safeguarding Challenge: Day 476

I am morally and factually innocent of every criminal offence with which I have ever been charged, and the allegation at the base of any outstanding charge has been made in order to incite my suicide.

That purely factual statement is acknowledged as such, unless and until it had been expressly repudiated to davidaslindsay@hotmail.com, by each and all of the members of the Board of the Catholic Safeguarding Standards Agency, currently Nazir Afzal, Amanda Ellingworth, Wesley Cuell, Bishop Paul Mason, Sarah Kilmartin, Jenny Holmes, Sir David Behan, and Sr Una Coogan IBVM.

That purely factual statement is acknowledged as such, unless and until it had been expressly repudiated to davidaslindsay@hotmail.com, by each and all of the members of the Hexham and Newcastle Diocesan Safeguarding Committee, currently Gail McGregor, Paul Weatherstone, Fr Christopher Hancock MHM, Canon William Agley, Catherine Dyer, Canon Martin Stempczyk, Canon Peter Leighton VG, Maureen Dale, and Tony Lawless.

And that purely factual statement is acknowledged as such, unless and until it had been expressly repudiated to davidaslindsay@hotmail.com, by each and all of the members of the Hexham and Newcastle Diocesan Safeguarding Team, currently Meriel Anderson, Ian Colling, Andrew Grant, Kirsty McIntyre, Lisa Short, Yvonne Brown, and Petra Scarr.

I am morally and factually innocent of every criminal offence with which I have ever been charged, and the allegation at the base of any outstanding charge has been made in order to incite my suicide. I should emphasise that there is absolutely no risk that I might ever give anyone the satisfaction of my suicide.

This post will appear daily until further notice.

The CPS Challenge: Day 476

I am morally and factually innocent of every criminal offence with which I have ever been charged, and any outstanding charge is being pursued by the Crown Prosecution Service as part of its organised persecution of the opponents and critics of Keir Starmer, which is its principal national priority.

I am morally and factually innocent of every criminal offence with which I have ever been charged, and any outstanding charge is being pursued by the Crown Prosecution Service in order to prevent me from seeking the position of General Secretary of Unite the Union on a programme including disaffiliation from the Labour Party, a proposal that would be hugely popular two years into a Starmer Government.

I am morally and factually innocent of every criminal offence with which I have ever been charged, and any outstanding charge is being pursued by the Crown Prosecution Service in order to prevent me from establishing a thinktank 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.

I am morally and factually innocent of every criminal offence with which I have ever been charged, and any outstanding charge is being pursued by the Crown Prosecution Service in order to prevent me from establishing a weekly magazine of news and comment, a monthly cultural review, a quarterly academic journal, and perhaps eventually also a fortnightly satirical magazine.

I am morally and factually innocent of every criminal offence with which I have ever been charged, and any outstanding charge is being pursued by the Crown Prosecution Service in order to prevent me from taking journalistic, political or other paid work for fear of losing my entitlement to Legal Aid.

I am morally and factually innocent of every criminal offence with which I have ever been charged, and any outstanding charge is being pursued by the Crown Prosecution Service out of the same racism that has caused it to refuse to prosecute the Police Officers in the case of Stephen Lawrence.

And I am morally and factually innocent of every criminal offence with which I have ever been charged, and any outstanding charge is being pursued by the Crown Prosecution Service in order to incite my politically motivated murder, a murder that the CPS has already decided would never lead to any prosecution.

Each of those eight statements stands as a matter of record unless and until it had been expressly denied to davidaslindsay@hotmail.com by each and all of the members of the CPS Board, currently Monica Burch, Stephen Parkinson, Simon Jeffreys, Dr Subo Shanmuganathan, and Kathryn Stone.

Each of those eight statements stands as a matter of record unless and until it had been expressly denied to davidaslindsay@hotmail.com by each and all of the CPS senior leadership, currently Tristan Bradshaw, Dawn Brodrick, Mike Browne, Steve Buckingham, Matthew Cain, Gregor McGill, Grace Ononiwu, and Baljhit Ubey.

Each of those eight statements stands as a matter of record unless and until it had been expressly denied to davidaslindsay@hotmail.com by each and all of the members of the CPS Audit and Risk Assurance Committee, currently Simon Jeffreys, Stephen Parkinson, Michael Dunn, Deborah Harris, Dr Subo Shanmuganathan.

Each of those eight statements stands as a matter of record unless and until it had been expressly denied to davidaslindsay@hotmail.com by each and all of the members of the CPS Nominations, Leadership and Remuneration Committee, currently Kathryn Stone, Stephen Parkinson, and Monica Burch.

And each of those eight statements stands as a matter of record unless and until it had been expressly denied to davidaslindsay@hotmail.com by each and all of the 279 members of staff of the CPS North East Area, by definition including, but not restricted to, Chief Crown Prosecutor Gail Gilchrist, and the Area Business Manager, Ian Brown.

This post will appear daily until further notice.

The Clergy Challenge: Day 1180

I invite each and every bishop, priest and deacon of the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle to contact davidaslindsay@hotmail.com if he thought that I was factually or morally guilty of any criminal charge that had ever been brought against me.

Not legally guilty; Bill Cosby is legally innocent. Factually and morally guilty. No name would be published except at the request of its bearer, but if anyone ever did get in touch, then the readers of this site would be the first to know. The current total is zero.

This post will appear daily until further notice.

The Representatives Challenge: Day 1180

As already stated on the day after my release: "The instant that Labour lost control of Durham County Council, then I was granted an unsolicited tag for more than 10 weeks of future good behaviour. I invite each and every Member of Parliament for the area covered by Durham County Council, each and every member of Durham County Council, and each and every member of Lanchester Parish Council, to contact davidaslindsay@hotmail.com if they thought that I was factually or morally guilty of any criminal charge that had ever been brought against me. Not legally guilty; Bill Cosby is legally innocent. Factually and morally guilty. No name would be published except at the request of its bearer, but if anyone ever did get in touch, then the readers of this site would be the first to know." The current total is zero.

And I invite each and every Member of Parliament whose constituency fell wholly or partly in County Durham to contact davidaslindsay@hotmail.com if they thought that I was factually or morally guilty of any criminal charge that had ever been brought against me. Not legally guilty; Bill Cosby is legally innocent. Factually and morally guilty. No name would be published except at the request of its bearer, but if anyone ever did get in touch, then the readers of this site would be the first to know. The current total is zero.

This post will appear daily until further notice.

Budget Responsibility?

How does Rachel Reeves know that this is the first Budget to be delivered by a woman? How dare she presume to know the gender identity of Denis Healey, Nigel Lawson, Gordon Brown or Philip Hammond? But George Osborne's has always been anyone's guess.

If a pound on your bus to work and another pound on your bus back "won't make any difference", then why will a penny off a pint of beer? How many pubs will even pass it on? For a commuter on minimum wage, the 50 per cent increase in bus fares will be the equivalent of a four per cent increase in income tax. The minimum wage will go up in April, but the bus fares will go up in January, and everything else is going up now, not least energy prices as we head into winter. The huge rise in employer's National Insurance contributions will preclude any pay rises in the face of this galloping inflation, any official fall in which is only prices going up by less than the last time that the Government checked. They are still going up.

Keeping the present income tax and employee's National Insurance thresholds until 2028 will be a huge increase in taxation, with those thresholds only then rising in line with inflation in time for the General Election, as if we were all stupid. Being practically impossible, sickness and disability benefit fraud is as good as non-existent, so the only way to deliver today's cuts is by requiring the failure of a quota of claims regardless of medical circumstances, even if that meant that the claimants died, as some of them will.

Like Keir Starmer, Reeves promised that there would be no return to austerity, so it cannot be austerity that the budgets of five Departments are to be cut, including a 3.2 per cent cut to the Home Office that was now "dispersing" the residents of the Bibby Stockholm. We have been paying £400 million per year to rent that 48-year-old engineless barge, which cannot be worth more than a few million pounds. Political kickbacks? What do you think? And to only one party? What do you think? Like HS2 and the Rwanda Scheme, that should be subject to someone like the Covid Corruption Commissioner. Except that we have yet to see who was going to be the Covid Corruption Commissioner.

This is all for what? The uniparty's precious Office for Budget Responsibility predicts that the economy will grow by 1.1 per cent this year, and two per cent in 2025. But from 2026, growth is predicted to be weaker than previously forecast, at least by the OBR, slowing to 1.5 per cent by 2028. Yet we are to pay Ukraine three billion pounds per year "for as long as it takes". For as long as it takes until what? The unconditional surrender of the Russian Federation? And that is before we have even mentioned the recent BRICS Summit in Kazan.

Look, this Budget is not all bad. None of them ever quite is. The justice for the Mineworkers' Pension Scheme is especially welcome here in the North East. Yet overall here, the dualling of the A1 has been cancelled, there is to be no Leamside Line investment, and even the Crown Works money had already been announced in March by Jeremy Hunt. Andy Burnham and Tracy Brabin have promised to keep the two pound cap on bus fares, while Kim McGuinness has said nothing. But Brabin and even Burnham do at least have some ties to the Left. McGuinness is purely a creature of the Labour Right, whose hatred of buses is visceral.

My Labour MP is disabled. North Durham is full of communities that, mostly but not exclusively since the pits closed, depend on the buses to get people to and from work that is rarely well-paid. He holds no Government position. On recent polling, he was projected to lose his seat. When this matter came to the vote, then we shall be watching.

As they will be watching in numerous constituencies that Labour won back this year, or won for the first time in a long time, or won for the first time ever, but which now faced the removal of agricultural property relief, meaning that on a family farm valued at over one million pounds, a family inheriting it will have to pay tax at 20 per cent. The average farm is worth eight million pounds, meaning a tax bill of £1.4 million, in practice payable only by selling the farm either to a property developer, thereby removing the land from food production altogether, or to some corporate agribaron, quite possibly putting control of the food supply in foreign hands, or in tax-avoiding offshore ones that amounted to the same thing. Goodbye to family farms. Goodbye to agricultural communities, which also depend heavily on buses where they are lucky enough to have them, just as the former Red Wall does. This Government either does not understand any of the places that have made it the Government, or it simply does not care.

Strictly Off The Record: Day 11

If you are Douglas McKean, then Oliver Kamm is convinced that you and I are one and the same. I hate to have to tell you that I have never heard of you. He first contacted me about this at lunchtime on 4 July, so General Election day was obviously slow on The Times, and he has promised to involve the Police, from whom I have heard nothing. Anyone with news of any developments, do please contact davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Strictly off the record, of course.

Also please contact davidaslindsay@hotmail.com with any news on the case of Fr Timothy Gardner OP, which was supposed to have been heard at Newcastle Crown Court in July, but of which I can find no trace. While this is not the only arrow in my quiver, unless Fr Gardner was convicted, then the latest accusations against me have absolutely no credibility, and nor does the propensity evidence that alone secured my conviction in 2020, to breach of the suspended sentence for which I wrongly pleaded guilty in 2021, leading to my imprisonment. Fr Gardner's non-conviction is not the only thing that could vindicate me. But it would do so. Any information would therefore be most gratefully received. Again, strictly off the record, of course.

This post will appear daily until further notice.

Justice Delayed: Day 116

Even assuming, and it was far from clear, that the Crown had presented any evidence whatever on the morning of Wednesday 19 June, then no later than the afternoon of Thursday 20 June, I would have been found not guilty unanimously in the time that it took to walk to the jury room and send a note to the judge. On Monday 6 November, the only Prosecution witness did not turn up, having been suspended from the Police. Since then, he has been "asked to resign" because of his conduct of my case. On Friday 14 June, my barrister formally complained.

Lo and behold, on the morning of Sunday 16 June, enough Police Officers turned up at my door to take down an al-Qaeda cell, and behaved roughly as if that were what they were doing. Everyone is laughing, and not at me. Late that night, a nonsense additional charge, quite different from the stated grounds of the arrest, was added, with no expectation that it could possibly stick, but in order to postpone what would have been that week's open-and-shut acquittal. Be at Durham Crown Court on Wednesday 26 February 2025, almost exactly two years, although we dispute the timeline, after the original complaint was allegedly made. When I shall be found not guilty. But the process is the punishment.

Rather than embarrass itself any further, the Crown did not even ask for me to be remanded. Nor did it dispute that the Police had found nothing on my laptop or on my phone, even though the latest allegation therefore cannot be true. And nor did it dispute that its only witness had been sacked from the Police because of my case, or that this latest action against me was a revenge attack for my barrister's complaint, both of which are now on Monday 17 June's record of Newton Aycliffe Magistrates' Court, as is the cleanliness of my devices, of which the Police are nevertheless keeping possession, requiring me to replace them at considerable expense.

I wish that my solicitor had used such terms as "Mafia hit" and "punishment beating". I am using them now. This is a punishment beating for the sacked policeman. And it is a Mafia hit by some Fredo Corleone, because the latest complaint was supposedly made before I had withdrawn from the General Election, a withdrawal that has rendered it pointless in its own terms. Other than the unpaid position to which I was elected unopposed well over a year ago, and which has therefore been kept vacant ever since, I have no intention of contesting another election to public office.

Welcome to the Starmer State, which institutional Britain has treated as the status quo since Keir Starmer became Labour Leader. I am not the only dissident that it persecutes, and things are already getting an awful lot worse now that Starmer is Prime Minister.

This post will appear daily until further notice.

The Safeguarding Challenge: Day 475

I am morally and factually innocent of every criminal offence with which I have ever been charged, and the allegation at the base of any outstanding charge has been made in order to incite my suicide.

That purely factual statement is acknowledged as such, unless and until it had been expressly repudiated to davidaslindsay@hotmail.com, by each and all of the members of the Board of the Catholic Safeguarding Standards Agency, currently Nazir Afzal, Amanda Ellingworth, Wesley Cuell, Bishop Paul Mason, Sarah Kilmartin, Jenny Holmes, Sir David Behan, and Sr Una Coogan IBVM.

That purely factual statement is acknowledged as such, unless and until it had been expressly repudiated to davidaslindsay@hotmail.com, by each and all of the members of the Hexham and Newcastle Diocesan Safeguarding Committee, currently Gail McGregor, Paul Weatherstone, Fr Christopher Hancock MHM, Canon William Agley, Catherine Dyer, Canon Martin Stempczyk, Canon Peter Leighton VG, Maureen Dale, and Tony Lawless.

And that purely factual statement is acknowledged as such, unless and until it had been expressly repudiated to davidaslindsay@hotmail.com, by each and all of the members of the Hexham and Newcastle Diocesan Safeguarding Team, currently Meriel Anderson, Ian Colling, Andrew Grant, Kirsty McIntyre, Lisa Short, Yvonne Brown, and Petra Scarr.

I am morally and factually innocent of every criminal offence with which I have ever been charged, and the allegation at the base of any outstanding charge has been made in order to incite my suicide. I should emphasise that there is absolutely no risk that I might ever give anyone the satisfaction of my suicide.

This post will appear daily until further notice.

The CPS Challenge: Day 475

I am morally and factually innocent of every criminal offence with which I have ever been charged, and any outstanding charge is being pursued by the Crown Prosecution Service as part of its organised persecution of the opponents and critics of Keir Starmer, which is its principal national priority.

I am morally and factually innocent of every criminal offence with which I have ever been charged, and any outstanding charge is being pursued by the Crown Prosecution Service in order to prevent me from seeking the position of General Secretary of Unite the Union on a programme including disaffiliation from the Labour Party, a proposal that would be hugely popular two years into a Starmer Government.

I am morally and factually innocent of every criminal offence with which I have ever been charged, and any outstanding charge is being pursued by the Crown Prosecution Service in order to prevent me from establishing a thinktank 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.

I am morally and factually innocent of every criminal offence with which I have ever been charged, and any outstanding charge is being pursued by the Crown Prosecution Service in order to prevent me from establishing a weekly magazine of news and comment, a monthly cultural review, a quarterly academic journal, and perhaps eventually also a fortnightly satirical magazine.

I am morally and factually innocent of every criminal offence with which I have ever been charged, and any outstanding charge is being pursued by the Crown Prosecution Service in order to prevent me from taking journalistic, political or other paid work for fear of losing my entitlement to Legal Aid.

I am morally and factually innocent of every criminal offence with which I have ever been charged, and any outstanding charge is being pursued by the Crown Prosecution Service out of the same racism that has caused it to refuse to prosecute the Police Officers in the case of Stephen Lawrence.

And I am morally and factually innocent of every criminal offence with which I have ever been charged, and any outstanding charge is being pursued by the Crown Prosecution Service in order to incite my politically motivated murder, a murder that the CPS has already decided would never lead to any prosecution.

Each of those eight statements stands as a matter of record unless and until it had been expressly denied to davidaslindsay@hotmail.com by each and all of the members of the CPS Board, currently Monica Burch, Stephen Parkinson, Simon Jeffreys, Dr Subo Shanmuganathan, and Kathryn Stone.

Each of those eight statements stands as a matter of record unless and until it had been expressly denied to davidaslindsay@hotmail.com by each and all of the CPS senior leadership, currently Tristan Bradshaw, Dawn Brodrick, Mike Browne, Steve Buckingham, Matthew Cain, Gregor McGill, Grace Ononiwu, and Baljhit Ubey.

Each of those eight statements stands as a matter of record unless and until it had been expressly denied to davidaslindsay@hotmail.com by each and all of the members of the CPS Audit and Risk Assurance Committee, currently Simon Jeffreys, Stephen Parkinson, Michael Dunn, Deborah Harris, Dr Subo Shanmuganathan.

Each of those eight statements stands as a matter of record unless and until it had been expressly denied to davidaslindsay@hotmail.com by each and all of the members of the CPS Nominations, Leadership and Remuneration Committee, currently Kathryn Stone, Stephen Parkinson, and Monica Burch.

And each of those eight statements stands as a matter of record unless and until it had been expressly denied to davidaslindsay@hotmail.com by each and all of the 279 members of staff of the CPS North East Area, by definition including, but not restricted to, Chief Crown Prosecutor Gail Gilchrist, and the Area Business Manager, Ian Brown.

This post will appear daily until further notice.

The Clergy Challenge: Day 1179

I invite each and every bishop, priest and deacon of the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle to contact davidaslindsay@hotmail.com if he thought that I was factually or morally guilty of any criminal charge that had ever been brought against me.

Not legally guilty; Bill Cosby is legally innocent. Factually and morally guilty. No name would be published except at the request of its bearer, but if anyone ever did get in touch, then the readers of this site would be the first to know. The current total is zero.

This post will appear daily until further notice.

The Representatives Challenge: Day 1179

As already stated on the day after my release: "The instant that Labour lost control of Durham County Council, then I was granted an unsolicited tag for more than 10 weeks of future good behaviour. I invite each and every Member of Parliament for the area covered by Durham County Council, each and every member of Durham County Council, and each and every member of Lanchester Parish Council, to contact davidaslindsay@hotmail.com if they thought that I was factually or morally guilty of any criminal charge that had ever been brought against me. Not legally guilty; Bill Cosby is legally innocent. Factually and morally guilty. No name would be published except at the request of its bearer, but if anyone ever did get in touch, then the readers of this site would be the first to know." The current total is zero.

And I invite each and every Member of Parliament whose constituency fell wholly or partly in County Durham to contact davidaslindsay@hotmail.com if they thought that I was factually or morally guilty of any criminal charge that had ever been brought against me. Not legally guilty; Bill Cosby is legally innocent. Factually and morally guilty. No name would be published except at the request of its bearer, but if anyone ever did get in touch, then the readers of this site would be the first to know. The current total is zero.

This post will appear daily until further notice.

Below The Minimum

The national minimum wage goes back to 1998. It has increased since then, but by nothing like the increase in economic output per hour worked in the United Kingdom; in short, productivity. This is underpayment on a colossal scale, and underpayment is theft.

When the minimum wage goes up by 77p per hour, then 15.4p will be deducted from that in income tax, and 6.16p in employee's National Insurance contributions. There will be a tapered deduction of up to 55 per cent in Universal Credit, and a fiscal drag of 2.5p due to the freezing of the Personal Allowance. So a full-time worker on minimum wage will keep fully 22 of those 77 pennies. £1.76 per day.

But wait. Her bus fare will be going up by two pounds per day, one pound to get her to work and one pound to get her home, leaving her 24p per day worse off even before things like the huge increase in energy costs, all under a Labour Government that had inherited an economy that had grown by £29 billion in the first six months of 2024, after which growth in Gross Domestic Product has simply ceased.

Strictly Off The Record: Day 10

If you are Douglas McKean, then Oliver Kamm is convinced that you and I are one and the same. I hate to have to tell you that I have never heard of you. He first contacted me about this at lunchtime on 4 July, so General Election day was obviously slow on The Times, and he has promised to involve the Police, from whom I have heard nothing. Anyone with news of any developments, do please contact davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Strictly off the record, of course.

Also please contact davidaslindsay@hotmail.com with any news on the case of Fr Timothy Gardner OP, which was supposed to have been heard at Newcastle Crown Court in July, but of which I can find no trace. While this is not the only arrow in my quiver, unless Fr Gardner was convicted, then the latest accusations against me have absolutely no credibility, and nor does the propensity evidence that alone secured my conviction in 2020, to breach of the suspended sentence for which I wrongly pleaded guilty in 2021, leading to my imprisonment. Fr Gardner's non-conviction is not the only thing that could vindicate me. But it would do so. Any information would therefore be most gratefully received. Again, strictly off the record, of course.

This post will appear daily until further notice.

Justice Delayed: Day 115

Even assuming, and it was far from clear, that the Crown had presented any evidence whatever on the morning of Wednesday 19 June, then no later than the afternoon of Thursday 20 June, I would have been found not guilty unanimously in the time that it took to walk to the jury room and send a note to the judge. On Monday 6 November, the only Prosecution witness did not turn up, having been suspended from the Police. Since then, he has been "asked to resign" because of his conduct of my case. On Friday 14 June, my barrister formally complained.

Lo and behold, on the morning of Sunday 16 June, enough Police Officers turned up at my door to take down an al-Qaeda cell, and behaved roughly as if that were what they were doing. Everyone is laughing, and not at me. Late that night, a nonsense additional charge, quite different from the stated grounds of the arrest, was added, with no expectation that it could possibly stick, but in order to postpone what would have been that week's open-and-shut acquittal. Be at Durham Crown Court on Wednesday 26 February 2025, almost exactly two years, although we dispute the timeline, after the original complaint was allegedly made. When I shall be found not guilty. But the process is the punishment.

Rather than embarrass itself any further, the Crown did not even ask for me to be remanded. Nor did it dispute that the Police had found nothing on my laptop or on my phone, even though the latest allegation therefore cannot be true. And nor did it dispute that its only witness had been sacked from the Police because of my case, or that this latest action against me was a revenge attack for my barrister's complaint, both of which are now on Monday 17 June's record of Newton Aycliffe Magistrates' Court, as is the cleanliness of my devices, of which the Police are nevertheless keeping possession, requiring me to replace them at considerable expense.

I wish that my solicitor had used such terms as "Mafia hit" and "punishment beating". I am using them now. This is a punishment beating for the sacked policeman. And it is a Mafia hit by some Fredo Corleone, because the latest complaint was supposedly made before I had withdrawn from the General Election, a withdrawal that has rendered it pointless in its own terms. Other than the unpaid position to which I was elected unopposed well over a year ago, and which has therefore been kept vacant ever since, I have no intention of contesting another election to public office.

Welcome to the Starmer State, which institutional Britain has treated as the status quo since Keir Starmer became Labour Leader. I am not the only dissident that it persecutes, and things are already getting an awful lot worse now that Starmer is Prime Minister.

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The Safeguarding Challenge: Day 474

I am morally and factually innocent of every criminal offence with which I have ever been charged, and the allegation at the base of any outstanding charge has been made in order to incite my suicide.

That purely factual statement is acknowledged as such, unless and until it had been expressly repudiated to davidaslindsay@hotmail.com, by each and all of the members of the Board of the Catholic Safeguarding Standards Agency, currently Nazir Afzal, Amanda Ellingworth, Wesley Cuell, Bishop Paul Mason, Sarah Kilmartin, Jenny Holmes, Sir David Behan, and Sr Una Coogan IBVM.

That purely factual statement is acknowledged as such, unless and until it had been expressly repudiated to davidaslindsay@hotmail.com, by each and all of the members of the Hexham and Newcastle Diocesan Safeguarding Committee, currently Gail McGregor, Paul Weatherstone, Fr Christopher Hancock MHM, Canon William Agley, Catherine Dyer, Canon Martin Stempczyk, Canon Peter Leighton VG, Maureen Dale, and Tony Lawless.

And that purely factual statement is acknowledged as such, unless and until it had been expressly repudiated to davidaslindsay@hotmail.com, by each and all of the members of the Hexham and Newcastle Diocesan Safeguarding Team, currently Meriel Anderson, Ian Colling, Andrew Grant, Kirsty McIntyre, Lisa Short, Yvonne Brown, and Petra Scarr.

I am morally and factually innocent of every criminal offence with which I have ever been charged, and the allegation at the base of any outstanding charge has been made in order to incite my suicide. I should emphasise that there is absolutely no risk that I might ever give anyone the satisfaction of my suicide.

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The CPS Challenge: Day 474

I am morally and factually innocent of every criminal offence with which I have ever been charged, and any outstanding charge is being pursued by the Crown Prosecution Service as part of its organised persecution of the opponents and critics of Keir Starmer, which is its principal national priority.

I am morally and factually innocent of every criminal offence with which I have ever been charged, and any outstanding charge is being pursued by the Crown Prosecution Service in order to prevent me from seeking the position of General Secretary of Unite the Union on a programme including disaffiliation from the Labour Party, a proposal that would be hugely popular two years into a Starmer Government.

I am morally and factually innocent of every criminal offence with which I have ever been charged, and any outstanding charge is being pursued by the Crown Prosecution Service in order to prevent me from establishing a thinktank 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.

I am morally and factually innocent of every criminal offence with which I have ever been charged, and any outstanding charge is being pursued by the Crown Prosecution Service in order to prevent me from establishing a weekly magazine of news and comment, a monthly cultural review, a quarterly academic journal, and perhaps eventually also a fortnightly satirical magazine.

I am morally and factually innocent of every criminal offence with which I have ever been charged, and any outstanding charge is being pursued by the Crown Prosecution Service in order to prevent me from taking journalistic, political or other paid work for fear of losing my entitlement to Legal Aid.

I am morally and factually innocent of every criminal offence with which I have ever been charged, and any outstanding charge is being pursued by the Crown Prosecution Service out of the same racism that has caused it to refuse to prosecute the Police Officers in the case of Stephen Lawrence.

And I am morally and factually innocent of every criminal offence with which I have ever been charged, and any outstanding charge is being pursued by the Crown Prosecution Service in order to incite my politically motivated murder, a murder that the CPS has already decided would never lead to any prosecution.

Each of those eight statements stands as a matter of record unless and until it had been expressly denied to davidaslindsay@hotmail.com by each and all of the members of the CPS Board, currently Monica Burch, Stephen Parkinson, Simon Jeffreys, Dr Subo Shanmuganathan, and Kathryn Stone.

Each of those eight statements stands as a matter of record unless and until it had been expressly denied to davidaslindsay@hotmail.com by each and all of the CPS senior leadership, currently Tristan Bradshaw, Dawn Brodrick, Mike Browne, Steve Buckingham, Matthew Cain, Gregor McGill, Grace Ononiwu, and Baljhit Ubey.

Each of those eight statements stands as a matter of record unless and until it had been expressly denied to davidaslindsay@hotmail.com by each and all of the members of the CPS Audit and Risk Assurance Committee, currently Simon Jeffreys, Stephen Parkinson, Michael Dunn, Deborah Harris, Dr Subo Shanmuganathan.

Each of those eight statements stands as a matter of record unless and until it had been expressly denied to davidaslindsay@hotmail.com by each and all of the members of the CPS Nominations, Leadership and Remuneration Committee, currently Kathryn Stone, Stephen Parkinson, and Monica Burch.

And each of those eight statements stands as a matter of record unless and until it had been expressly denied to davidaslindsay@hotmail.com by each and all of the 279 members of staff of the CPS North East Area, by definition including, but not restricted to, Chief Crown Prosecutor Gail Gilchrist, and the Area Business Manager, Ian Brown.

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The Clergy Challenge: Day 1178

I invite each and every bishop, priest and deacon of the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle to contact davidaslindsay@hotmail.com if he thought that I was factually or morally guilty of any criminal charge that had ever been brought against me.

Not legally guilty; Bill Cosby is legally innocent. Factually and morally guilty. No name would be published except at the request of its bearer, but if anyone ever did get in touch, then the readers of this site would be the first to know. The current total is zero.

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The Representatives Challenge: Day 1178

As already stated on the day after my release: "The instant that Labour lost control of Durham County Council, then I was granted an unsolicited tag for more than 10 weeks of future good behaviour. I invite each and every Member of Parliament for the area covered by Durham County Council, each and every member of Durham County Council, and each and every member of Lanchester Parish Council, to contact davidaslindsay@hotmail.com if they thought that I was factually or morally guilty of any criminal charge that had ever been brought against me. Not legally guilty; Bill Cosby is legally innocent. Factually and morally guilty. No name would be published except at the request of its bearer, but if anyone ever did get in touch, then the readers of this site would be the first to know." The current total is zero.

And I invite each and every Member of Parliament whose constituency fell wholly or partly in County Durham to contact davidaslindsay@hotmail.com if they thought that I was factually or morally guilty of any criminal charge that had ever been brought against me. Not legally guilty; Bill Cosby is legally innocent. Factually and morally guilty. No name would be published except at the request of its bearer, but if anyone ever did get in touch, then the readers of this site would be the first to know. The current total is zero.

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The Way Things Are Going

In 1947, Hugh Dalton had to resign as Chancellor of the Exchequer because minutes before delivering his Budget speech, he had let slip to a journalist that certain taxes would be changed, causing that story to appear in the evening papers while he was still speaking and before he had informed the House of Commons. These days, readers and MPs alike would count themselves lucky that it had been true, since not only has the Government already announced five new freeports to the media, but those turn out never to have existed after all.

Yesterday, Keir Starmer's harsh light of fiscal reality bent around the £22 billion black hole of Rachel Reeves to reveal an extra £1.4 billion for schools, or a whopping 50 grand each; £500 million for social housing, enough to build a couple of thousand homes; £240 million to help people back into work, or about 80 quid for each person currently jobless; and a 50 per cent increase in bus fares.

All on the day that Sir Lindsay Hoyle read the riot act over the announcement of policy in the media before its announcement to the House. Tomorrow, he should name both Starmer and Rachel Reeves, requiring them to leave the House immediately and not return for the remainder of the day's sitting. No Prime Minister's Questions that day. And no Budget speech, effectively daring the Government to publish it anyway and see what would happen.

That Was The Synod That Was

The dying countries' obsession ignored, and the dying generation's hobbyhorse sent to the knacker's yard. Apart from that, wittering gibberish, soon to be forgotten by the tiny few who had ever noticed it.

Been there, done that. Smugly assuming that their views were in any case the consensus, members of the WASP elite on at least three continents once invoked their nth generation club rights to demand that their church change to suit their specifications. 26 years later, they are still screeching abuse at the insolent colonial darkies who were having none of it. 

Such Baby Boomers were then in their pomp rather than in their early dotage, and Western Europe, North America and the Antipodes had yet to feel the full effects of mass immigration from outside each other. Their sociologically indistinguishable Catholic contemporaries from the same regions and from the whitest parts of Latin America, including Argentina, have now had the same experience, and they have had it from a far weaker position at home no less than abroad.

Thank God for that. Without a robust material realism, there can be no pursuit of economic equality and international peace through the democratic political control of the means to those ends, led by those who suffered most as a result of economic inequality, namely the working class, and led by those who suffered most as a result of international conflict, namely the working class and the youth.

Yet much of the Left has succumbed to gender self-identification, which is a flat denial of even the most blatantly obvious material reality. Demonstrably, then, dialectical materialism has failed to provide that robust basis. Nor, in itself, can natural science, which cannot prove the ontological existence of material reality, but rather presupposes it and works from there.

What is needed is Thomism, which by definition exists within the wider Augustinian tradition. Fundamental to both is absolute fidelity to the Roman Magisterium, which is itself irrevocably committed to the Thomist metaphysical system, within which its own indispensable role precludes any degeneration comparable to that of the ancestrally Marxian Left into gender self-identification. Philosophy needs the Rock of the Petrine Office no less than Theology does.

Just as there can be no meaningful claim to be pro-life without an active commitment to economic equality and to international peace, so there can be no such commitment without material realism. There can be no secure material realism, nor, therefore, any science, without Thomism. And there can be no Thomism without the Roman Obedience, which one adopts either entirely and at whatever cost, or not at all.

Applied to the present situation, this has implications that are vastly more egalitarian economically, vastly more pacific internationally, and vastly more democratic politically, than anything that Marxism could ever devise, much less deliver. This is not to build the house from the roof down. Fidelity to the Magisterium requires Thomism, which entails material realism, which compels a critique of the present economic and geopolitical order such as leads inexorably to the pursuit of equality and peace through democracy.

For example, my paternal grandfather was born before such working-class men could vote, and my maternal ancestors included African slaves, Indian indentured labourers, and Chinese coolies. We who come off the lower orders and the lesser breeds, and perhaps especially those of us who are disabled, know perfectly well who would be euthanised, and how, and why.

Even if we had made it past the industrial scale abortion that disproportionately targeted us, then we, as a people, would face euthanasia as yet another lethal weapon in the deadly armoury of our mortal enemies, alongside their wars, alongside their self-indulgent refusal to enforce the drug laws, alongside police brutality and other street violence, alongside the numerous life-shortening consequences of economic inequality, and alongside the restoration of capital punishment, which has never been more likely than under a Prime Minister who was a former Director of Public Prosecutions.

All this, and the needle, too? This is class and race war, and we must fight to the death. That death must not be ours, but the death of the global capitalist system. Having subjected itself to that system to a unique extent, Britain is uniquely placed to overthrow it, and to replace it with an order founded on the absolute sanctity of each individual human life from the point of fertilisation to the point of natural death. That foundation would and could be secured only by absolute fidelity to the only global institution that was irrevocably committed to that principle, including the full range of its economic, social, cultural and political implications.

You laughed for half a century that we opposed the poisoning of women to make them permanently available for the sexual gratification of men, and instead celebrated 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. But those Catholics who abided by that have now visibly outbred those who did not even in the handful of countries where it was ever an issue. And right here in one of those countries, the wider debate now recognises that the lowest fertility rate since records began was a national emergency.

As with the mounting realisation that if there were too many people, then you had to explain which people there ought not to be and why, so there is a mounting realisation that if some people should be assisted to commit suicide, then you had to explain which ones and why. Mr Speaker Hoyle has his faults, but he is a good friend of Saint Helena, and we have seen again today that he is a forthright upholder of the precedence of the House of Commons. He should do so by berating the failure to publish the text of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. 100 Labour MPs are known to be undecided. If you are undecided on something like this, then at the very least you cannot vote in favour of it, and you really ought to vote against it.

Undermines The Seriousness

Keir Starmer must have lost a bet and therefore had to make David Lammy Foreign Secretary. Lammy does not even know that genocide is not about numbers, but about intent.

In 1993, the former Bolivian President, García Meza Tejada, was convicted of genocide for the deaths of fully eight people. A lot more than that have died in Gaza, in Lebanon and on the West Bank since 7 October 2023, a lot more than died on that day even before anyone might be so coarse as to mention the Hannibal Directive.

And an awful lot more again will die as a result of the Israeli ban on UNRWA. Any country that still armed Israel after this would be an active participant in those deaths, in that genocide. As, of course, any country that was arming Israel already is. All eyes are on Michigan.

As for the JW3 conference, the speakers were Tony Blair, Hamish Falconer and Ehud Olmert. How is Olmert permitted to enter the United Kingdom? Would he be permitted to enter United States? We are not talking about allegations here. The Tony Blair Institute makes Blair an active politician, while Falconer is a sitting Member of Parliament and a serving Minister of the Crown. The Government that he graces is committed to retaining its predecessor's ban on peaceful protest. But don't let that stop you.

After all, prison is like a holiday camp according to the media consumed by Stephen Yaxley-Lennon's fan base. One wonders why they objected to his having been sent there. They should envy him his good fortune. They have paid enough into it.

National Concessionary?

No, BBC, "most disabled people" do not qualify for the English national concessionary travel scheme, any more than we qualified for Personal Independence Payment. Such things are very, very, very difficult to get. But like probably millions of others, no one would ever insure me to drive, and from their own point of view they would be right.

The boundary changes effectively abolished the Red Wall as an electoral factor, and did in fact abolish a number of Red Wall seats such as North West Durham, so that only about one in seven of this year's Labour gains could have been so described. The needs of towns and villages that lost their employers in the 1980s and 1990s, making it a necessity to commute to far from well-paid work, have therefore never been an issue at a General Election. But before the same changes that destroyed those industries, almost everywhere in Britain had a regular and affordable bus service, so we know that it can be done. Likewise, it has been established that things in the private sector can be capped by the State. If bus fares, then why not water company dividends? Or the "bonuses" that were paid mechanically to bankers?

This change will close some routes, stranding people who could not afford either to drive or to move, and whose services were already far from comprehensive even though they did not necessarily live very far from the jobs that they were doing, paying at least National Insurance accordingly. And even for those who could still get to work, with an increase in their employers' contributions, there will be no increase in their pay to match the 50 per cent increase in their travel costs.

Voting for all of this, as he did both for the two-child benefit cap and to withdraw the Winter Fuel Payment, will be Jas Athwal, who on top of everything else turns out to be the landlord of an unsafe private care home where children have gone missing and been left at risk of criminal exploitation. Athwal was the Leader of Redbridge Borough Council when its funding of this Heartwood Care, Athwal's tenant, increased by 503 per cent. At that time, Athwal's Deputy Leader, responsible for children's care, was Wes Streeting.

At the same time, with fewer than half of households in the lowest fifth of incomes having access to a car, fuel duty will not be increased in line with inflation, nor will the five pence cut from 2022 expire in 2025, despite the inclusion of that expiry in the calculation of the fiscal baseline. This is class war. This. Not anything to do with Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, who will certainly repeat his trick of emerging from a brief incarceration looking as if he had done 20 years in the gulag, and whom I am expecting to do so as Azzam Al-Irlandi.

Throughout my time in prison, officers and inmates at every level of each told me that I ought to apply for political status. But I would have been released by the time that it had ever gone through. As would Yaxley-Lennon, even before taking account of the 40 per cent release scheme. As much as that? I was released after 25 per cent, having been a guest of the old Queen for less than a fortnight when an entirely unsolicited letter informed that I would be so for "good behaviour". Hours earlier, Labour had lost control of Durham County Council.

Yaxley-Lennon will get none of that, because he is not a political prisoner. He tapped his supporters for who knows how much for his defence, then he pocketed the loot and pleaded guilty. They should sue. Or he should be prosecuted for fraud. Or both. He libelled a child, he lost the libel action, and he broke the injunction not to repeat the libel. Lucy Connolly incited arson with intent to endanger life on racial grounds. Peter Lynch participated in an attempt to commit such arson, and after his death Ann Widdecombe said that he had rightly been sent down, so Reform UK's denunciation of Yaxley-Lennon is not a novelty.

This time, though, Reform has lost its Yaxley-Lennonist base. It was always going to have a job overturning a Labour majority of 14,696 at Runcorn and Helsby. But could it now collect the 10 signatures to get onto the ballot paper, there or anywhere else? Yet anyone endorsed by Yaxley-Lennon probably could. The absence of such a candidate would be cowardice to rank with that of Laurence Fox.

71 Weeks On

Nominations have been closed for 71 weeks, so when is the election?

If I sought election to any other public position now, then I would rapidly find myself just another death in custody, especially under a Starmer or post-Starmer Government, and most especially if Labour had also taken back control of Durham County Council next year.

But I was a public governor of County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust from 2017 to 2020, having been elected unopposed, an extremely unusual occurrence. Unopposed among the 90,000 or more people in the part of County Durham that I was elected to represent. I failed to be re-elected by three votes, on a recount. Yet I was again elected unopposed well over a year ago, a double feat that I am not aware that anyone else has ever managed, and which has caused the position to be kept vacant ever since. I am determined to have it for at least as long as I was elected to it. Do your worst. As, now under both parties, you are already doing to far better than I.

Strictly Off The Record: Day Nine

If you are Douglas McKean, then Oliver Kamm is convinced that you and I are one and the same. I hate to have to tell you that I have never heard of you. He first contacted me about this at lunchtime on 4 July, so General Election day was obviously slow on The Times, and he has promised to involve the Police, from whom I have heard nothing. Anyone with news of any developments, do please contact davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Strictly off the record, of course.

Also please contact davidaslindsay@hotmail.com with any news on the case of Fr Timothy Gardner OP, which was supposed to have been heard at Newcastle Crown Court in July, but of which I can find no trace. While this is not the only arrow in my quiver, unless Fr Gardner was convicted, then the latest accusations against me have absolutely no credibility, and nor does the propensity evidence that alone secured my conviction in 2020, to breach of the suspended sentence for which I wrongly pleaded guilty in 2021, leading to my imprisonment. Fr Gardner's non-conviction is not the only thing that could vindicate me. But it would do so. Any information would therefore be most gratefully received. Again, strictly off the record, of course.

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Justice Delayed: Day 114

Even assuming, and it was far from clear, that the Crown had presented any evidence whatever on the morning of Wednesday 19 June, then no later than the afternoon of Thursday 20 June, I would have been found not guilty unanimously in the time that it took to walk to the jury room and send a note to the judge. On Monday 6 November, the only Prosecution witness did not turn up, having been suspended from the Police. Since then, he has been "asked to resign" because of his conduct of my case. On Friday 14 June, my barrister formally complained.

Lo and behold, on the morning of Sunday 16 June, enough Police Officers turned up at my door to take down an al-Qaeda cell, and behaved roughly as if that were what they were doing. Everyone is laughing, and not at me. Late that night, a nonsense additional charge, quite different from the stated grounds of the arrest, was added, with no expectation that it could possibly stick, but in order to postpone what would have been that week's open-and-shut acquittal. Be at Durham Crown Court on Wednesday 26 February 2025, almost exactly two years, although we dispute the timeline, after the original complaint was allegedly made. When I shall be found not guilty. But the process is the punishment.

Rather than embarrass itself any further, the Crown did not even ask for me to be remanded. Nor did it dispute that the Police had found nothing on my laptop or on my phone, even though the latest allegation therefore cannot be true. And nor did it dispute that its only witness had been sacked from the Police because of my case, or that this latest action against me was a revenge attack for my barrister's complaint, both of which are now on Monday 17 June's record of Newton Aycliffe Magistrates' Court, as is the cleanliness of my devices, of which the Police are nevertheless keeping possession, requiring me to replace them at considerable expense.

I wish that my solicitor had used such terms as "Mafia hit" and "punishment beating". I am using them now. This is a punishment beating for the sacked policeman. And it is a Mafia hit by some Fredo Corleone, because the latest complaint was supposedly made before I had withdrawn from the General Election, a withdrawal that has rendered it pointless in its own terms. Other than the unpaid position to which I was elected unopposed well over a year ago, and which has therefore been kept vacant ever since, I have no intention of contesting another election to public office.

Welcome to the Starmer State, which institutional Britain has treated as the status quo since Keir Starmer became Labour Leader. I am not the only dissident that it persecutes, and things are already getting an awful lot worse now that Starmer is Prime Minister.

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The Safeguarding Challenge: Day 473

I am morally and factually innocent of every criminal offence with which I have ever been charged, and the allegation at the base of any outstanding charge has been made in order to incite my suicide.

That purely factual statement is acknowledged as such, unless and until it had been expressly repudiated to davidaslindsay@hotmail.com, by each and all of the members of the Board of the Catholic Safeguarding Standards Agency, currently Nazir Afzal, Amanda Ellingworth, Wesley Cuell, Bishop Paul Mason, Sarah Kilmartin, Jenny Holmes, Sir David Behan, and Sr Una Coogan IBVM.

That purely factual statement is acknowledged as such, unless and until it had been expressly repudiated to davidaslindsay@hotmail.com, by each and all of the members of the Hexham and Newcastle Diocesan Safeguarding Committee, currently Gail McGregor, Paul Weatherstone, Fr Christopher Hancock MHM, Canon William Agley, Catherine Dyer, Canon Martin Stempczyk, Canon Peter Leighton VG, Maureen Dale, and Tony Lawless.

And that purely factual statement is acknowledged as such, unless and until it had been expressly repudiated to davidaslindsay@hotmail.com, by each and all of the members of the Hexham and Newcastle Diocesan Safeguarding Team, currently Meriel Anderson, Ian Colling, Andrew Grant, Kirsty McIntyre, Lisa Short, Yvonne Brown, and Petra Scarr.

I am morally and factually innocent of every criminal offence with which I have ever been charged, and the allegation at the base of any outstanding charge has been made in order to incite my suicide. I should emphasise that there is absolutely no risk that I might ever give anyone the satisfaction of my suicide.

This post will appear daily until further notice.

The CPS Challenge: Day 473

I am morally and factually innocent of every criminal offence with which I have ever been charged, and any outstanding charge is being pursued by the Crown Prosecution Service as part of its organised persecution of the opponents and critics of Keir Starmer, which is its principal national priority.

I am morally and factually innocent of every criminal offence with which I have ever been charged, and any outstanding charge is being pursued by the Crown Prosecution Service in order to prevent me from seeking the position of General Secretary of Unite the Union on a programme including disaffiliation from the Labour Party, a proposal that would be hugely popular two years into a Starmer Government.

I am morally and factually innocent of every criminal offence with which I have ever been charged, and any outstanding charge is being pursued by the Crown Prosecution Service in order to prevent me from establishing a thinktank 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.

I am morally and factually innocent of every criminal offence with which I have ever been charged, and any outstanding charge is being pursued by the Crown Prosecution Service in order to prevent me from establishing a weekly magazine of news and comment, a monthly cultural review, a quarterly academic journal, and perhaps eventually also a fortnightly satirical magazine.

I am morally and factually innocent of every criminal offence with which I have ever been charged, and any outstanding charge is being pursued by the Crown Prosecution Service in order to prevent me from taking journalistic, political or other paid work for fear of losing my entitlement to Legal Aid.

I am morally and factually innocent of every criminal offence with which I have ever been charged, and any outstanding charge is being pursued by the Crown Prosecution Service out of the same racism that has caused it to refuse to prosecute the Police Officers in the case of Stephen Lawrence.

And I am morally and factually innocent of every criminal offence with which I have ever been charged, and any outstanding charge is being pursued by the Crown Prosecution Service in order to incite my politically motivated murder, a murder that the CPS has already decided would never lead to any prosecution.

Each of those eight statements stands as a matter of record unless and until it had been expressly denied to davidaslindsay@hotmail.com by each and all of the members of the CPS Board, currently Monica Burch, Stephen Parkinson, Simon Jeffreys, Dr Subo Shanmuganathan, and Kathryn Stone.

Each of those eight statements stands as a matter of record unless and until it had been expressly denied to davidaslindsay@hotmail.com by each and all of the CPS senior leadership, currently Tristan Bradshaw, Dawn Brodrick, Mike Browne, Steve Buckingham, Matthew Cain, Gregor McGill, Grace Ononiwu, and Baljhit Ubey.

Each of those eight statements stands as a matter of record unless and until it had been expressly denied to davidaslindsay@hotmail.com by each and all of the members of the CPS Audit and Risk Assurance Committee, currently Simon Jeffreys, Stephen Parkinson, Michael Dunn, Deborah Harris, Dr Subo Shanmuganathan.

Each of those eight statements stands as a matter of record unless and until it had been expressly denied to davidaslindsay@hotmail.com by each and all of the members of the CPS Nominations, Leadership and Remuneration Committee, currently Kathryn Stone, Stephen Parkinson, and Monica Burch.

And each of those eight statements stands as a matter of record unless and until it had been expressly denied to davidaslindsay@hotmail.com by each and all of the 279 members of staff of the CPS North East Area, by definition including, but not restricted to, Chief Crown Prosecutor Gail Gilchrist, and the Area Business Manager, Ian Brown.

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The Clergy Challenge: Day 1177

I invite each and every bishop, priest and deacon of the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle to contact davidaslindsay@hotmail.com if he thought that I was factually or morally guilty of any criminal charge that had ever been brought against me.

Not legally guilty; Bill Cosby is legally innocent. Factually and morally guilty. No name would be published except at the request of its bearer, but if anyone ever did get in touch, then the readers of this site would be the first to know. The current total is zero.

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The Representatives Challenge: Day 1177

As already stated on the day after my release: "The instant that Labour lost control of Durham County Council, then I was granted an unsolicited tag for more than 10 weeks of future good behaviour. I invite each and every Member of Parliament for the area covered by Durham County Council, each and every member of Durham County Council, and each and every member of Lanchester Parish Council, to contact davidaslindsay@hotmail.com if they thought that I was factually or morally guilty of any criminal charge that had ever been brought against me. Not legally guilty; Bill Cosby is legally innocent. Factually and morally guilty. No name would be published except at the request of its bearer, but if anyone ever did get in touch, then the readers of this site would be the first to know." The current total is zero.

And I invite each and every Member of Parliament whose constituency fell wholly or partly in County Durham to contact davidaslindsay@hotmail.com if they thought that I was factually or morally guilty of any criminal charge that had ever been brought against me. Not legally guilty; Bill Cosby is legally innocent. Factually and morally guilty. No name would be published except at the request of its bearer, but if anyone ever did get in touch, then the readers of this site would be the first to know. The current total is zero.

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Fare Fight

Right-wing Labourites hate buses. Nothing will give them greater pleasure than to abolish the two pound single and four pound return bus fares, leading to increases of £10 or more in some places. They are not attacking bus pass wielding pensioners this time. By whatever definition, these are working people.

One rogue Conservative voted to keep the two-child benefit cap when whipped to abstain, but only Labour MPs voted to means-test the Winter Fuel Payment, and that time the Conservatives voted against. Expect the same thing on this, the removal of something that the Conservatives introduced.

Labour is the most right-wing party in the House of Commons, and it would not have won an overall majority, much less a landslide, if it had stood honestly on that basis. We tried to tell you.

Georgia On Their Minds

Moldova discombobulated them. They had expected to lose, and to blame it on Russian interference. But they won, so they had to blame somehow not winning by enough on Russian interference. That was all a bit too much for them.

Georgia, though, has resumed normal service. They have lost, so it must have been Putin what done it. They are visibly and audibly delighted. Simple things please simple minds.

Pending Further Inquiries

A constituent who had been caught on CCTV punching an MP would be on remand awaiting trial for a terrorism offence.

Mike Amesbury's wife Amanda is the Director of Children's Services for Warrington Borough Council. Did someone say "Safeguarding"?

Ladies First?

Didn't we once "liberate" Afghanistan? And even when, after 20 years, we just handed it back to the Taliban, then were they not supposed to have been different ones? In a way, they were. The old ones never banned women from speaking.

And to what might Afghan women have looked for protection? To the Women's Equality Party, which is now to dissolve itself? That existed to promote the media careers of its well-heeled and well-connected stalwarts, in the way that the Official Monster Raving Loony Party exists to promote its members on the pub entertainment circuit, especially in the South East. The latter, however, is a far nobler endeavour, which is why there is no proposal to dissolve the Official Monster Raving Loony Party. 

There ought to have been an absolute requirement that a representative of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party have been featured whenever airtime was given to anyone from the Women's Equality Party. Newspapers and others ought also to have considered such balance to have been good practice. Someone might then have pointed out the lunacy of having "liberated" Afghanistan by having made it even worse than ever. Or of having a Women's Equality Party that could not define a woman.

All Of That Lot?

"Kamala Harris is a sinking ship. That must be why Leonardo DiCaprio has got on board." There's only one George Galloway. While the Washington Post's reasons for declining to endorse Harris remain debateable, the Los Angeles Times has done so because of the genocide of Gaza. That liberals are cancelling their subscriptions says everything that we already knew about liberals.

Including by not sanctioning Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, and at least arguably Benjamin Netanyahu as well, Keir Starmer's Government is making the United Kingdom an active participant in this state-backed settler terrorism on the West Bank. Centrism and right-wing populism are con tricks to sell exactly the same economic and foreign policies to different audiences by pretending to wage a culture war. Fascism is inherent in both of them, and it never arises except by their joint enterprise.

Therefore, since the centrists have lately transferred their affections from the People's Mojahedin Organisation of Iran to the monarchists, or at least divided them between the two, yesterday's march and rally in support of Stephen Yaxley-Lennon featured most or all of the Iranian monarchist flags in Britain outside specialist museums of one or more of Persiana, royalty and vexillology. As with the ubiquitous Israeli flag, note well that this is who the wavers of such are.

As when the same faction stabbed the Police at the Cenotaph on Armistice Day, these drunken and cocaine-fuelled events are always noted for public urination, in yesterday's case on Westminster Abbey, among other things. That seems fitting in the country where the water companies have certified themselves as having passed pollution tests that were never carried out.

Yesterday's denunciations were mostly of Reform UK, and this morning Richard Tice took to GB News to return the compliment, professing that, "All of that lot, we have nothing to do with them, we want nothing to do with them." There go Reform's existing supporters, then. And in return for what? For whom?

Half of Conservative councillors, not noted as woke Marxists or what have you, think that Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick are both too right-wing to win a General Election. One third of Conservative MPs voted for James Cleverly, and no small proportion of the rest voted tactically, if incompetently so, in what they had thought was that interest. In the places that returned Conservative MPs even this year, being the Tory MP is at least as much a social as a political position, and even more so for the wife. And so on. It is not going to happen.

We Urge MPs To Resist This Change

As MPs realise that the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is neither a student debating motion nor the subject of a seminar, but primary legislation that would have life and death effects, this letter appears in The Observer:

As teachers and practitioners of law, we welcome Sonia Sodha’s thoughtful column and express our serious misgivings about the proposal to legalise physician-assisted suicide for the terminally ill. The law reports are littered with cases of undue influence and duress, and legalisation would inevitably expose the most vulnerable to that risk.

Other jurisdictions show both the difficulty of drafting effective legal safeguards and the tendency of such laws to expand. Canada has dropped its legal requirement that death be “reasonably foreseeable” and is set to allow euthanasia for mental illness in 2027. The Netherlands already allows euthanasia for mentally ill people and has proposed extending the law to elderly people with “completed lives”. Oregon has repealed its residency requirement and it is only a matter of time until its limitations to assisting suicide and to terminal illness – now being criticised as “barriers to access” – are dropped.

Such limitations in a UK law would be challenged in court as unjustly discriminatory. However well-intentioned the movers of the bill, we believe the UK would, sooner or later, follow other jurisdictions down the slippery slope. Nor should the involvement of high court judges be seen as a panacea, not least because our justice system is already under immense pressure. The risk of error is one reason why the European convention on human rights proscribes the death penalty; it is also a reason the law should not be relaxed. We urge MPs to resist this change.

Prof Mark Elliott, professor of public law, University of Cambridge; Dr Mary Neal, reader in healthcare law and ethics, school of law, University of Strathclyde; Thomas Teague KC, former chief coroner of England and Wales; Marianne Alton, Barrister, Lincoln House Chambers; Michael Ashe KC, barrister, England & Wales and Ireland; Prof John Bell KC (Hon), professor emeritus of law, University of Cambridge; Sir Robert Buckland KC, former lord chancellor; barrister, Foundry Chambers; Annoné Butler, solicitor and former government lawyer; Lord Carlile of Berriew KC, crossbencher, House of Lords; barrister; Dr Conor Casey, senior lecturer, University of Surrey School of Law; Thomas Chacko, barrister, Pump Court Tax Chambers; Naomi Cunningham, barrister, Outer Temple Chambers; Michael d’Arcy, barrister, One Essex Court; Benjamin Douglas, lecturer, UCL Faculty of Laws; Prof Richard Ekins KC, professor of law and constitutional government, University of Oxford; Prof Mark Elliott, professor of public law, University of Cambridge; Prof Timothy Endicott, Vinerian professor of English law, University of Oxford; Prof John Finnis KC (Hon), professor emeritus of law and legal philosophy, University of Oxford; Dr Michael Foran, lecturer in public law, University of Glasgow; Prof Charles Foster, fellow, Exeter College, Oxford; the Revd Justin Gau, barrister, Pump Court Chambers and assistant priest, St John’s, West Hackney; Harry Gillow, barrister, Monckton Chambers; Joseph Hart, barrister, Deans Court Chambers; James Hatt, barrister, 4 Pump Court; Prof John Keown, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown (former senior lecturer in law, Cambridge); Sir Stephen Laws KC (Hon), first parliamentary counsel, 2006–12; senior research fellow, Policy Exchange; Audrey Ludwig, solicitor; Anna Lukina, fellow, LSE Law School; Max Marenbon, barrister, Serle Court Chambers; Nick McBride, college lecturer in law, Pembroke College, Cambridge; Prof Jonathan Morgan, professor of English law, University of Cambridge; Lord Murray of Blidworth, House of Lords, and barrister, 39 Essex Chambers; Dr Philip Murray, college assistant professor in law, Robinson College, Cambridge; Dr Mary Neal, reader in healthcare law and ethics, School of Law, University of Strathclyde; Timothy Pitt-Payne KC, barrister, 11KBW; Dr Jonathan Price, fellow of St Cross College, University of Oxford, and Matraszek fellow, Pusey House; Akua Reindorf KC, barrister, Cloisters Chambers, and visiting fellow, LSE Law School; Barbara Rich, barrister, 5 Stone Buildings; Prof Julian Rivers, professor of jurisprudence, University of Bristol; Prof Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco, professor of moral and political philosophy (jurisprudence), University of Surrey; Lord Sandhurst KC, House of Lords; barrister and former chairman of the Bar Council; Dr Rajiv Shah, former special adviser to the prime minister; Prof Nigel Simmonds, professor emeritus of jurisprudence, University of Cambridge; Dr Brian Sloan, assistant professor in law, University of Cambridge; Anthony Speaight KC, visiting professor, School of Law, University of Surrey; barrister; Tim Storrie KC, barrister, Lincoln House Chambers; The Revd Dr Simon Taylor KC, retired barrister; Thomas Teague KC, former chief coroner of England and Wales; Scott Wortley, lecturer in private law, University of Edinburgh; Dr Asanga Welikala, lecturer in public law, University of Edinburgh; Dr Paul Yowell, associate professor in law, University of Oxford; Dr Yuan Yi Zhu, assistant professor of international relations and international law, Leiden University