Secrete This

Vladimir Putin sought out an Ecuadorian dart frog so as to extract its epibatidine and administer it to a man who was already in prison? Who writes this rubbish? Alexei Navalny was already supposed to have survived Novichok, but who hasn't? Novichok has killed, at most, one person ever, and that was an accident. On 12 March 2018, The Times announced that Sergei Skripal was dead. But on 18 May, he was discharged from hospital. Yulia had been discharged on 9 April. I wonder where they are now? I expect that we shall never know. And when is there going to be a Coroner's Inquest into the death of Dawn Sturgess? We are expected to accept that everyone involved in this plot either could not have afforded a gun, or did not know where to find one, or did not know how to use it. Those who believe these hallucinations walk among us. Those who knowingly spread these falsehoods rule over us and purportedly hold our rulers to account.

Following the Palestine Action ruling, Yvette Cooper should face action both for contempt of court and for contempt of Parliament. But even if she were a remotely credible figure, then how would Navalny be our problem? No one very much in Russia had ever heard of Navalny before, albeit under prison camp conditions, he dropped dead of natural causes as we fortysomethings sometimes do. Whereas we cockroaches survive. Yes, Navalny really did calls us that. In 2021, Amnesty International therefore revoked his status as a prisoner of conscience. He had no more claim to that than Stephen Yaxley-Lennon ever had, although he was never anywhere near as well-known in Russia as Yaxley-Lennon is in Britain even without living here.

Yaxley-Lennon has endorsed Matt Goodwin at Gorton and Denton, where Cooper's candidate has been endorsed by Vince Cable, apparently without affecting his membership of the Liberal Democrats. Yet Cable held an economic brief in Cabinet on every day of the Coalition that Keir Starmer denounced in response to Ed Davey at this week's Prime Minister's Questions. A vote for Labour is a vote for that, as well as for the only British party with a member on Donald Trump's Board of Peace. Throughout the Coalition of Austerity, the position of Chief Secretary to the Treasury was also held by a Lib Dem, and that was initially David Laws until he had to resign for having misclaimed £40,000 in expenses. He was soon back attending Cabinet, but only this site thought anything amiss. £40,000 was also the sum that Angela Rayner avoided in stamp duty, even before considering how much less was her transgression than anything to do with the Ambassadorial appointment of Peter Mandelson, who is still on the Privy Council, passing on its papers to who knows whom. If our rulers' professed inability to maintain Courtsdesk did not persuade you to resist digital ID and live facial recognition, then that fact certainly should.