To Help Them In Their Fight

Neil Clark writes:

I'm afraid to say that on the worst day so far of Covid19 in the UK I've been attacked in the most despicable way possible via a defamatory hatchet piece in a UK magazine (which I won't refer to or link to for the moment as if you're suing for libel you're not meant to promote the libel).

The timing of the piece and its promotion by a few individuals, was clearly designed to cause me and my family the maximum distress. As if we all haven't got enough to worry about at the moment. But for some people even a global pandemic won't stop their attacks.

Having discussed the matter with my wife, my family and my solicitor, I have decided I have no other option but to initiate legal proceedings against the publication as soon as possible. I will be seeking from the publication concerned an (a) apology (b) corrections (c) the prominent publication of a recently published statement (d) the payment of damages which I would like donated to the NHS to help them in their fight against Coronavirus.

In addition I also need to raise money for legal enforcement costs in relation to an earlier matter. I have given an undertaking not to make any public comment re a litigation already undertaken, and I won't be doing that, but that doesn't mean my legal representatives cannot act when I have been defamed.

All contributions, large and small, to help me right these wrongs and end the ordeal that my family and I have been put through are hugely appreciated. Thank you and thank you to everyone who has supported me and my work in the past.

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He is valiant for Julian Assange, and he is not afraid to point out the obvious conspiracy, which was accepted by the largely female jury, against Alex Salmond.

Covid-19 is the only reason why Nicola Sturgeon is still in her job. As much as anything else, as came out in court, she lied to the Scottish Parliament about never having met one of Salmond's accusers.

And if they are anonymous, then how did they manage to organise a round robin letter to the press?

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Blood From A Stone?

It would take a heart of stone not to laugh. Hundreds of selections would be merrily rigged in order to ensure that most Labour MPs would be hardline Thatcherites, so that no matter who you voted for, nothing would ever change, or at least nothing would ever change for the better. For 25 years, that worked. But it assumed that most Conservative MPs would also be hardline Thatcherites, or at least that their party would always be led by such. 

Instead, though, the General Election of 2019 gave a thumping great majority to a Government that had presented no economic programme to the electorate, but which turned out to have broadly the economic programme of Jeremy Corbyn's disappointed critics to his left within and, increasingly as his Leadership wore on, beyond the Labour Party. A Government that owed its majority to seats that had voted for Corbyn when he had still been committed to Brexit, and which would have done so again if he had retained that commitment.

So Labour prepares to give its Leadership to Keir Starmer, the idea of whom as a potential Prime Minister is an outright obscenity on this anniversary of the death of Ian Tomlinson, and Starmer prepares to give the Shadow Chancellorship to that bestial eugenicist, Rachel Reeves. But who cares? Economically, this is the most left-wing Government since the month in which I must have been conceived, December 1976. And up here on the newly Blue Wall, we are loving the lengths to which the Conservatives will go to stop us from painting the towns Red again.

The Budget of March 2020, and the Government's response to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, have ended the era that began with the Budget of December 1976. The Centre is the think tank for this new era. Please give generously.

Issue, Bonds

This is by far the biggest story of the year. 

The eight members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation have decided to conduct bilateral trade and investment, and to issue bonds, in local and national currencies rather than in US dollars.

They are China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. That is very nearly half of the human population of the world.

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Vaccinate Your Thinking

Men are at far greater risk than women from Covid-19. We cannot self-identify out of that.

Biological sex is real, and it is important. The Centre is the new think tank for this new era. Please give generously.

Jeopardise This

Q. What is the difference between the Labour Leadership Election and the Roman Empire?

A. The Roman Empire did eventually come to an end.

When Keir Starmer is crowned on Saturday, then Boris Johnson ought to announce that the immemorial protection against double jeopardy, which is fundamental to the presumption of innocence, was going to be restored at least for offences that were alleged to have been committed after the coming into effect of the Criminal Justice Act 2003. Not that the Conservatives defended that ancient liberty at the time, but even so.

What would Starmer say? "Stephen Lawrence"? Stephen Lawrence would have turned 46 this year. Go round Eltham now and and tell the black boys who could have been his sons about how his case "stopped the Met from being racist". Go on. I dare you. And go over the people who had been convicted of offences of which they had previously been acquitted. I would bet you anything you liked that they were disproportionately of a duskier hue.

As well as being almost invariably working-class. At the same time as this announcement, then Johnson ought also to announce the inquiry into Orgreave. Again, what would a former Director of Public Prosecutions say to that? The Centre is the think tank for this new era. Please give generously.

Keep Your Distance

Maintain social distance in Waitrose by carrying a Lidl shopping bag.

But seriously, while we are all going stir crazy and looking for excuses, a coronavirus infection is not like, say, prostate cancer, where you could have had it for 20 years when you died of something else. 

If you died with Covid-19, then you probably died of Covid-19. Stay at home.