Within Three To Nine Years?

On control of where the oil and gas went, the present regime in Iran must have offered Donald Trump a worse deal than either or both of the absolute monarchist but fake royal, Reza Pahlavi, who is almost a complete stranger to Iran, and the Mojahedin-e-Khalq of Islamo-Marxist terrorists whose collaboration with Saddam Hussein was up to and including fighting for Iraq in the war with Iran, a country where it, too, has now been almost completely unknown for two generations. Watch out for those Westerners who wanted to abolish the constitutional monarchies in their own countries while sending their compatriots to die to defend the absolute monarchies in the Gulf, which are in the Epstein Files, and to restore the absolute monarchy in Iran, under a man who, if he is not in them, must have been redacted.

The Revolutionary Guard Corps has vast interests in energy, engineering, construction, shipbuilding, automation and telecommunications, and enormous influence over the bonyads, which are fabulously rich and economically pivotal religious charities. If it had made the most attractive bid, then the United States would now be attacking Iran to keep it in power. But after the war, someone will still have to run those things, and a limited number of people have the training or the experience. Who else could drill the oil for Trump? That is how these things work. See the Eastern Bloc after 1989. See Austria, Japan and both Germanies after 1945. See Venezuela now.

Every one of these Epstein Class wars has ended in disaster, yet still there are those who will cheer on another one. It is time to start listening to the people who have been right. Right about Kosovo, which is the distribution centre for most of the heroin on British streets. Right about Afghanistan. Right about Iraq. Right about Libya. Right about Syria. Right about Ukraine. Right about Venezuela, where there has been no regime change, but only a resources grab. And preparing to be proved right about Iran. Not that it gives us any pleasure.

Ignore anyone who advocated a military intervention unless you could imagine that person as an 18-year-old in battle. The call for war always comes primarily from the liberal bourgeoisie, the Epstein Class. That is the class least likely to join the Armed Forces voluntarily, or to see combat even in periods of conscription. Operationally, that is just as well. Yet if there is not a strong enough case for conscription, then there is not a strong enough case for war. Unless a country needs to mobilise its entire healthy and able-bodied male population of fighting age, then it is not under sufficient threat to justify going to war at all.

The result at Gorton and Denton deprived Keir Starmer of the political authority to go to war with Iran, among other things. In principle, that would also have been true if Reform UK had won, but today Nigel Farage has backed British intervention. Ben Habib and Stephen Yaxley-Lennon are also pro-war, but Rupert Lowe is not. Therefore, having been disowned on air by David Bull for his views on Britishness, and of course for losing, Matt Goodwin has the issue on which to decide whether to join Advance UK or Restore Britain.

Douglas Murray has declared for Pahlavi, so we must assume that that is also the position of Oliver Kamm. I was once sent review copies of Kamm’s and Murray’s respective books as a kind of job lot; as essentially a single work. We have always known that centrism and right-wing populism were con tricks to sell exactly the same economic and foreign policies to different audiences by pretending to wage a culture war, while Fascism was inherent in both of them, only ever arising by their joint enterprise. We have always pointed out that they constituted a single milieu. But we have been proved right beyond our worst nightmares. Whereas QAnon hallucinated that God had raised up a deliverer in the person of Trump, the Epstein Class is made up of centrists, right-wing populists, right-wing elitists, and the world’s only famous anarcho-syndicalist and libertarian socialist.

But never mind Noam Chomsky. Is Bernie Sanders an anarcho-syndicalist and a libertarian socialist? Is Jean-Luc Mélenchon? Is Jeremy Corbyn? Is Zack Polanski? Is George Galloway, whom Starmer believes to be electorally the most influential man on Britain, despite no longer being in Britain?No, the archetypal Epstein Class academic is Professor Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard. In 2021, he wrote that, “Oliver Kamm’s urbanity, erudition and compassion are raised to the power of two in Mending the Mind. He put them to work in crafting this gorgeous and urgent book, and on every page they remind us of his moral that enviable gifts are no protection against the affliction of depression.”

Pinker is on the Editorial Board of Evolutionary Psychological Science, which in 2018, a very short time before 2021 in the life of a quarterly journal, published this masterpiece by Edward Dutton, whom I knew at university. He once tried to seduce me after Mass, so I know his little secret. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Mankind Quarterly, which he used to edit. Another member is Dr Adel Batterjee of Jeddah, the founder of the Benevolence International Foundation, which was placed under UN sanctions because it was a front for funding al-Qaeda. Kamm, Pinker, Dutton, Batterjee. Batterjee, Dutton, Pinker, Kamm. Truly, an Axis of Evil. Douglas Murray, indeed. Murray was a great friend and mentee of Christopher Hitchens, whom Gore Vidal famously named his “dauphin or delfino” before outliving him, and whose dauphin or delfino Kamm comically purports to be.

As a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Heterodox Social Sciences, Goodwin has links to Aporia Magazine, which is published by the same Human Diversity Foundation that publishes Mankind Quarterly and Dutton’s podcast, The Jolly Heretic, linking it to Pinker, and thus to Kamm. The HDF was founded in 2022 by Emil Kirkegaard, otherwise William Engman, of OpenPsych. Kirkegaard is noted for his calls to legalise child pornography so as to reduce the number of rapes committed by paedophiles, to lower the age of consent to 13, and to make it even lower if puberty had begun. In 2018, he sued Oliver Smith for calling him a paedophile, but in 2020 he had to drop the action and pay Smith’s legal costs, leaving him heavily in debt. The HDF has taken over most of the previous work of the Pioneer Fund, publisher of The Bell Curve and American distributor of Erbkrank. Goodwin has commended Coming Apart, Charles Murray’s follow-up to The Bell Curve that applied its racism to class differences among whites.

It is a big club, and we are not in it. Nor would we wish to be. Yet there are those who have to be removed from it, or at least put at some remove from it. There have been high table rumours about Joe Docherty for years. Like Matthew Doyle, he was introduced to the House of Lords by Hilary Armstrong, whose Whips’ Office in the Commons had included all three of Phil Woolas (did someone say something about electoral fraud?), Ivor Caplin and Dan Norris. All three were made Ministers soon after the vote for the Iraq War, and here we go again. Norris does not  turn up to Parliament, but he has one of the best voting records, because despite his own suspension from the Labour whip, his proxy vote is cast every single time by the Labour Whips. Armstrong was the political patroness, both of Anna Turley, and of Caplin’s close friend, closest ally, former lover, and constituency successor, Peter Kyle. Armstrong remains an active Labour member of the House of Lords, giving it as her institutional affiliation when she endorsed a mercifully ignored book that claimed that the accused of the Cleveland child abuse scandal had been guilty all along. As the young people say, every accusation is a confession.

Kyle joined his old boss in supporting the brief Leadership campaign of Jess Phillips. “I would stab Jeremy Corbyn in the front,” said the woman who was now “Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls”. She has accused British Pakistanis of importing wives for their disabled sons. She claims to have been rude and abusive towards Diane Abbott, although it is possible that she has built her reputation on lying about having used gutter language towards a woman who was old enough to be her mother. Phillips laughs at male suicides, at male cancers, at other men’s health issues, at violence against men, at problems in boys’ educational attainment, and at fathers denied access to their children. She has said that attacks of the kind that were seen in Cologne on the New Year’s Eve of 2015-16, “happen every week in Birmingham.”

Phillips’s Leadership Campaign was chaired by Wes Streeting, who would have become Leader when, as expected in 2019, the Conservative majority had been much reduced in 2024 but Boris Johnson had remained Prime Minister. Yes, that was barely six years ago. Streeting’s then employee, Sam Gould, was a sitting councillor when he committed offences startlingly similar to those of Liron Woodcock-Velleman, who sent naked pictures of himself to a 13-year-old girl while asking her to “show me your bra”, whether she was “at home alone”, and whether she was a virgin. Woodcock-Velleman was also a Labour councillor in London, and he was such a cog in the right-wing machine that he gave the evidence of Hope Not Hate at committee stage of what has become the Online Safety Act.

And on Tuesday 2 September, Phillips, that machine’s first choice for Streeting’s stopgap, told the House of Commons that, “South Yorkshire police should never have been left to investigate themselves in this matter, and moving those investigations to the NCA is absolutely the right thing to do. I would be lying if I said that over the years I had not met girls who talked to me about how police were part of not just the cover-up but the perpetration.” Read again those words of the Minister who refused a statutory inquiry, an inquiry that had been, and still is, demanded by the Muslim candidate whom she had beaten by only 693 votes at Birmingham Yardley, which he intends to contest again, the wonderful investigative journalist Jody McIntyre. Then read the Epstein Files and worry about inferior cultures with no respect for women and with endemic predation on young girls.

Still, Ann Limb will not be taking up her peerage, and Josh Simons has resigned as a Minister. Good. Now send round the rozzers. They should already have been by now. Limb obtained several positions by fraudulent means, it looks as if she also cooked the books, while Simons tried to frame people for offences against the Official Secrets Act and the National Security Act. Why has anyone been waiting for some investigation by his own Cabinet Office? If you are unfit to be a Minister, then you are unfit to be an MP. And with his Harvard, Silicon Valley and Beltway connections, Simons is a flight risk. On him as on Limb, call the Police. Even if they are the same Police who failed to notice the detailed defacement of the statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square, one of the most policed and surveilled places in the world at any hour of day or night. On the same night that a previously unheard of outfit alleged a previously unheard of form of electoral malpractice, a man with “asset” written all over him waved the false flag, again to discredit the result at Gorton and Denton, and also to justify the continued proscription of Palestine Action while, as we now see, manufacturing consent for Operation Epstein Fury against Iran.