No News Today

According to the Today programme, the biggest story in Britain was admissions to Oxford, the biggest story in the world was the death of Philip Roth, and the biggest story after those two was the financial health of Marks and Spencer.

At nine o'clock, Radio Four changed the order of priorities from Oxford, Roth, Knickers, to Roth, Knickers, Oxford. But it still left in fourth place the fact that the Government was planning to limit each household's permitted consumption of water.

Labour fought the 1979 General Election on a commitment to introduce a National Grid for water. What Loony Leftism, as I am sure that you will agree. In the meantime, hasn't privatisation turned out wonderfully?

I still support a National Grid for water. Do you want someone to make that case in the coming hung Parliament? My crowdfunding page has been taken down without my knowledge or consent. But you can still email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com instead, and that address accepts PayPal.

Although with public services like the BBC, who needs privatisation? Tens of thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands, of SNP supporters have not paid the licence fee in years. They receive nothing worse than snotty letters. But for its insight into the priorities of our lords and masters, this morning's Today programme was worth the licence fee on its own.

Foreign Interference

The existence of "troll factories" and what have is accepted as a given by our hysterical media, but it is not the Russian Embassy that now dictates the very membership of the Labour Party.

Then there are the publicly funded student unions that are paying to send their members home to the Irish Republic to vote in favour of abortion. One such is at Oxford, which probably admits more people from what will turn out to be the Yes-voting parts of that depopulated country than it does from the great swaths of England and Wales that voted both for Brexit and for Jeremy Corbyn. It undoubtedly admits more from those parts of the United States which voted for Hillary Clinton. (Not that that should put anyone off applying, or accepting a place. Quite the reverse, in fact. Get in there.)

There are also places, and one in particular, that voted both for Corbyn and against Brexit. Oxford's failure to admit very many candidates from Black and Minority Ethnic backgrounds should be seen in the light of the ease with which it admits them from London, where BAME people are a very high proportion of the population, especially among the young.

Corbynism is the most left-wing mainstream political movement in the Western world, yet it has very rapidly become hegemonic in one of the richest cities on the planet, and it has done so in the face of furious hostility from that city's monolithic media. Only one small ethnic group, and not even all of that, is really holding out. It is doing so on behalf of the Government of a tiny foreign state. That Government's political roots are in viciously anti-British terrorism within living memory, including on the streets of London. And that, pretty much, was where we came in.

Trial Date Watch: Day 29

Six weeks after I had again been due to stand trial, I now no longer have a trial date, even though it is rightly a criminal offence to fail to attend one's trial.

Had I been tried, as expected, on 6th December, then, even had I been convicted, I would already have been released, since I would by now have served three months even of a wildly improbable six month sentence.

The legal persecution of me, which has been going on for over a year, was initiated only in order to deter me from seeking public office or to prevent my election to it, and its continuation is only to one or both of those ends. Amnesty International is on the case.

Until there is anything to add to it, then this post will appear here every day that the post is delivered.

Libel Watch: Day 84

The Leader of Durham County Council, Simon Henig, was so afraid that I was going to be elected to that authority, that he faked a death threat against himself and dozens of other Councillors.

Despite the complete lack of evidence, that matter is still being pursued by the Crown Prosecution Service as part of the attempt by the sacked Director of Public Prosecutions, Alison Saunders, to secure a Labour seat in one or other House of Parliament.

If I am wrong, then let Henig and Saunders sue me. Until they do, then this post will appear here every day that the post is delivered.

Low Tone

Today, Tony Blair refused to apologise for his role in the case of Abdel Hakim Belhaj. My parliamentary candidacy is not endorsed by Tony Blair. Is Laura Pidcock's?

My crowdfunding page has been taken down without my knowledge or consent. But you can still email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com instead, and that address accepts PayPal.

#Ken4Lewisham?

Probably not, but there will be something. At 72, Ken Livingstone is younger than people whom we have all known try and fail to retire from politics. Why anyone imagines that this is the end of him, I have absolutely no idea.

Come What May

In relation to the Manchester Arena attack, do not mention the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, of which Manchester was made the global centre by the then Home Secretary, Theresa May.

And in relation to Grenfell Tower, do not mention Gavin Barwell, who is now the Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister, Theresa May.