Hardly anyone has ever known that as Home Secretary, Michael Howard arranged Royal Pardons for the major league Liverpool gangsters John Haase and Paul Bennett, who were associates of his drug-dealing cousin, Simon Bakerman. Hasse and Bennett had been sentenced to 18 years, Haase having been the biggest heroin dealer in Britain. Thanks to 40 per cent of all Royal Pardons granted in 1996, they served all of 11 months. Haase had ordered his men on the outside to plant heroin and guns before telling the Police where to look for them. That was it. That was enough to secure the freedom of two friends of the family of the man who, nine years later, was presented to the electorate as a potential Prime Minister, and who did in fact gain his party 33 seats while the Government lost 48. Yet apart from Nick Cohen, to this day our courageous Fourth Estate has never said a word.
And so to Lola Salem, whose case has in recent hours made the BBC, LBC (which has taken it down, but it is archived here), and the Oxford Mail, from which we already knew that she and Michael Gove had been cohabiting. Yet none of today's three reports mentions Gove. It is just a standard "dodgy don" story. Except, of course, that it is so much more than that. This afternoon, Salem posted on her Substack her article from Gove's Spectator on Friday, 10 days after her hearing, professing that it had "mysteriously vanished". Such is the Americanisation of the London media that they have been calling her a Professor, which she is nowhere near, but she is an immigrant facing charges related to the sexual abuse of children. Where are the blackshirted marchers, even if, required to uncover their faces, they had taken to painting them black in lieu of balaclavas? Yes, really. Who is picketing 22 Old Queen Street, from which Peter Mandelson has been commissioned twice this year? Uniquely, Unity News Network has submitted a Freedom of Information request as to whether Lord Gove had secured a parliamentary pass for Salem, and whether she still held it. Who is going to chase that up in Parliament?
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