Oliver Kamm Candidacy Watch: Day Eight

Oliver Kamm, since you are a Starmer supporter, if you were to be the Labour candidate here at North West Durham next time (and they still cannot find one for this highly marginal seat), then I would put up as an Independent again.

You could have the Labour nomination here with one tweet: "In support of @Keir_Starmer, I am the @UKLabour candidate at North West Durham, there being no other. @NWDurhamLabour @CoDurhamLabour @RicHolden @TheNorthernEcho @itvtynetees @BBCLN" 

Get it tweeted. Go on. I dare you. Put up or shut up. A daily update will appear here until you do.

Oliver Kamm Arrest Watch: Day 16

There is more evidence to arrest Oliver Kamm than there was to convict me, and he clams up over on Guido Fawkes when asked whether or not he has been arrested. So, has Oliver Kamm been arrested? If not, why not?

Kamm faked a death threat against himself, and he used a contact at Durham, who ought also to be arrested and who may in fact have been so, to try and pin it on me. That incident is so similar to the one of which I was convicted as to call into question my conviction. A daily update will appear here until further notice.

Oliver Kamm Libel Watch: Day 47

Oliver Kamm, you are a liar, and as such you are unfit to hold your position on The Times.

Sue me.

Your bizarre CapX article, as well as numerous other statements of yours since then, have had nothing to do with the substance of my previous court case, in relation to which I maintain my innocence. So they have not already been tested in court. And they are lies.

You made up the "anti-Semitic death threat" against yourself, in a language that I could not read, and even though you are not Jewish. I was present when the Police literally laughed it out.

Like me, the Police know how you did it; they know who in Durham you used, and so do I. Eventually, you will either do time for this, or it will see you sent to a psychiatric institution, possibly both.

You are a stalker with an acknowledged history of mental illness, and I can see less and less reason why I ought not to move to have you committed. Or sent to prison. By the criteria that were used to convict me, then that would be an open and shut case.

Next time that you try and frame someone, then do not use a language, and even a script, that your target cannot read. The Police tend to laugh out that kind of thing.

Oliver Kamm, you are a liar, and as such you are unfit to hold your position on The Times. Sue me. This post will appear here daily until you do.

Something About Owen Jones

Who cares?

The licensed Left is of no interest to anyone. If he were really one of us, then he would never get the gigs. 

A column on The Guardian? Real radicals are banned from the comments threads underneath such things.

The Chips Are Down

In the best tradition of Juan Guaidó, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya is a handpicked potato, to be served with the mince as which she is as thick.

The liberal bourgeoisie's taking to the streets to chant its love of NATO and the EU, while demanding that the votes of the beastly little common people be annulled, is no more edifying in Belarus than it is in Britain, where it has also been happening.

Either spectacle is no more sympathetic than the chanting of similar types for the United States to invade Hong Kong, or for the CIA to stage a coup on behalf of actual Nazis in Venezuela, as previously in Ukraine.

There is plenty wrong with Alexander Lukashenko, and he did not win by anything like as much as he claims to have won. But he really did win. As Nicolás Maduro really did win. As Evo Morales really did win. As Viktor Yanukovych really did win. And as Brexit really did win. 

The kind of people who won it for Brexit are the kind of people who won it for Maduro and for Lukashenko, even if only for the want of anything better. The people who want to remove Maduro and Lukashenko like this are the people who think that our votes should not and do not count as much as their own, if at all.

Imagine that an incoming Biden Administration announced its recognition of Keir Starmer, who is strikingly like Kamala Harris in many ways, as the "legitimate" Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, in order to stop the application of Modern Monetary Theory so as to reverse the deindustrialising effects of globalisation, in order to take Britain back into the EU by acceding to the Schengen Agreement and by adopting the euro, and in order to ensure British participation in any future war that Saudi Arabia might care to order up, from the oilfields of Venezuela, to the lithium mines of Bolivia, to anywhere that, by allying with Russia, might ally indirectly with Syria and Iran.

Antidote

Characters as obviously dodgy as Boris Berezovsky and Alexander Litvinenko should never have been allowed into this country, where their presence served only to endanger our own people.

But the BBC has made the lead news the possible poisoning, in Russia, of a man who wants to be the corrupt dictator of Russia in place of the present corrupt dictator of Russia. Who cares?

We know what, or at any rate whom, Alexei Navalny is against. But what is he for? What does he want instead? There is a reason why those who are supposed to ask questions on our behalf never ask that question.

And notice that he is not dead. If Vladimir Putin is the Great Poisoner, then he is not very good at it. If it is not the Skripals doing the hokey cokey across Salisbury Plain, then it is this. 

If Putin, or the GRU, or any of that lot, wanted you dead, then you would be dead. Not of some exotic poison that did not work, anyway. But of a bullet to the head.

In Jeopardy

Keir Starmer’s proudest achievement is to have abolished the immemorial protection against double jeopardy, since nothing else concrete ever came out of the Stephen Lawrence case. Is the Metropolitan Police no longer racist? Go round London and tell the black boys that. Go on. I dare you.

The Conservative Party did nothing to defend that civil liberty, of course. It has never suggested restoring it. And it is no surprise that Starmer is re-suspending Labour Party members the complaints against whom have already been investigated and dismissed.

One’s attitude to the Palestinian struggle is the litmus test of one’s attitude to the specific phenomenon of white violence against people of colour throughout the world, including in Britain, and until you understand that, then you have not begun to understand anything.

As much as anything else, Labour is being impolitic here, choosing a tiny group of people who rarely vote Labour over several far larger ones whose members have mostly done so hitherto. Now those members might just stop voting altogether, and scores of Labour seats will be lost by default. 

The Oxford English Dictionary defines anti-Semitism as “Hostility to or prejudice against Jews”, and that definition is sufficient. The IHRA Definition is a denial of BAME, migrant and refugee, and therefore working-class, experience redolent of the Windrush scandal and of the fire at Grenfell Tower. In forbidding or curtailing criticism of a particular foreign state, the IHRA Definition is incompatible with national sovereignty.

The denial of the ancient indigenous Christian presence in the Holy Land, where it created modern Palestinian identity, contributes significantly to the worldwide persecution of Christians. The Palestinian Christians’ ancestors predated the Israelite Conquest, they founded Jerusalem, and they became Christian when or before the Roman Empire did.

They adopted Arabic at the time of the Islamic Conquest, including the conquest of a Jerusalem that had by then been entirely Christian for centuries; that Conquest was contemporaneous with the Saxon Conquest of another remote former Roman province, meaning that England and Palestine are the same age, as well as sharing a Patron Saint. He is also shared with Egypt and Lebanon. 

Although the Tomb of Saint George at his birthplace, which is now known as Lod and which is the location of Israel’s principal airport, has become a shadow of its former self. It was once a major focus of unity between Christians and Muslims. But three quarters of those who practised that devotion were violently expelled in 1948. On what remains, see here. 

But it is wrong to tell Israelis to “go home” when the State of Israel was founded in the year that the Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury. There are now fourth generation Israelis, who are very much at home.