Here is an image of Julian and I talking in the Ecuadorean Embassy, part of the spycam footage that was commissioned by the CIA from Spanish security firm Global. Julian and I were discussing a number of overseas missions to liaise with foreign governments, which I was carrying out on his behalf.
(Incidentally can anybody explain why the precise image you see there is an image which does not appear at any stage when you run the video? I am not even hinting at anything suspicious, just technically interested).
Having been on the inside and knowing their capabilities, I have always assumed that the security services know everything I say and do, so I cannot claim this comes as a great shock or that my behaviour would have been much altered had I known. The shadowing on those overseas trips was unsubtle in any case, more of a warning off than attempt at covert surveillance. As anyone who has read my books will realise, I have always rather enjoyed the more shadowy elements, with me since my former profession. During a visit to Washington in September 2016 which has become somewhat infamous, for fun I entered an establishment of low repute and spent an afternoon giving out free flash drives with my tips to various young ladies and barmen, just to give the FBI lots of particularly wild geese to chase. I have wondered occasionally whether subsequent embarrassment is connected to Robert Mueller’s lack of desire to accept my evidence. (If you have no idea what I am talking about do not worry, you haven’t missed much and just skip this para).
While I am gently rambling away, I might add that it was most amusing to be portrayed as a housebound obsessive blogger by MSM journalists attacking me on Twitter over my Salmond coverage: that is attacked by MSM journalists who have never done anything in their life except copy and paste the odd establishment press release and pick up fat pay cheques from their billionaire owners.
There is however a point to this post. As the ABC news item above shows, Julian’s privileged conversations with his lawyers on his legal defence were being spied on, by the government which is now seeking to extradite him. In any jurisdiction in the civilised world, that should be enough immediately to bring proceedings to a halt. The first witnesses to be called when the hearing resumes are the witnesses who will attest to this. The defence have requested an adjournment of the case beyond May 18, because at present they have no access to their client due to Covid 19 lockdown in the jail, and because it is not at all clear witnesses will be able to travel from abroad by 18 May. Judge Vanessa Baraitser has refused to reschedule.
It is also worth asking why has nothing like that ABC coverage been seen on the BBC or Sky, where this case is actually being heard and Julian is a prisoner?
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Julian Assange is the epitome of a pitiful figure. Over an extended period his life has been effectively destroyed and it is likely that one way or another he is now not long for this world.
This all came about because he chose to expose the crimes of the US. How was it possible that he could be aware of the criminality of the US state and not be aware that the same state would commit crimes against him? When Assange was just a child someone wrote “…and if death comes so cheap then the same goes for life” What could possibly explain how he could not understand this simple message?
Could it possibly be that he took the counsel of a variety of Class A idiots – people like Baltasar Garzon and his ilk. Should have remembered Lennon “You think you’re so clever, so classless and free, but you’re still fucking peasants as far as I can see”
There is a way and Snowden showed what that way was. Assange chose, or was persuaded to choose, a different way. Ask why that was
Assange did what he was able to do at the time. Unfortunately it didn’t turn out to be sufficient. Flight out of UK wasn’t available at the time, as he would have been stopped at the airport.
Assange chose the timing and Assange chose his own location. He is now living with the consequences of those choices.
He is Living with the Consequence of telling us ALL The TRUTH about USA War Crimes.
With Regards the Conditioned Evil Baraitser –
Her Rancid Spewed Words
Inflict Violence Upon
Helpless Julian.
Thanks Brian, some need it hammering into their one track brains. Julian thought that by accepting bail conditions and signing on once/ day in Beccles police station would eventually see him through. Then c the hustle of K Starmer and his counterpart in Sweden who was told ‘ dont get cold feet now, when the Swedes wanted to drop the case. He is seriously implemented by accepting an EAW that was not signed by a judge, as it should have been. On follows his embassy period, 7 years of selfimposed incarceration due to US revenge and hostile moves.
These facts of spying and breaking his confidentiallity make this crystal clear.
Those who can live with Sir keir ought to at least challenge his neocon Atlanticist actions.
Ask yourself, …is this what socialism looks like in the 21st. Century?
@ nevermind April 15, 2020 at 23:31
Starmer sold his soul, and has his reward. He will pay the price one day.
He indeed exposed war crimes. What he exposed was that war crimes were just part of the ‘war deal’ but somewhere deep down don’t we all know this anyway. I remember reading accounts of the Bosnia war and being struck dumb by the witless, inane cruelty. What JA exposed was the heartlessness and gleefulness that American soldiers brought to the war not so much that war crimes were committed. And US is not the only culprit.The UK soldiers were just as guilty of indiscriminate killing and capricious vengeful brutality such as that inflicted on the unfortunate Iraqi hotel receptionist.You will remember that the soldiers who did this were institutionally absolved by the courts. I was shocked by the Turkey shoot mentality of the heliicopter crew, inexperienced, except in warfare, yes, barely literate and without the personal intellectual resources, that come with age, to be aware at a deeper level of their own part in the criminality. Institutional violence is concerned with absolving perpetrators. Yes they were war crimes but no guilt is felt by either the perpetrators or the people commanding, right up to the political level of Bush and Blair. It is systematic violence.
Again no one is in any doubt about the institutional level of war crimes and the involvement of these individuals.
Is it not really the case that JA exposed this intrinsic reality and for that he is being persecuted The violent person or institution knows nothing else.He exposed the corrupt nature of power and rubbed their powerful noses in their own shit. For that he will suffer, no matter that we feel vindicated by a superiority born of distance from such foul events..
Free Julian –
https://www.flickr.com/photos/132108640@N08/49782373677/in/dateposted-friend/
No, he’s living with his choices and those of others.
If what you write is the product of a UK education then you make the case more clearly than I ever could for burning down all the schools and starting again.
Loony is wrong. Assange didn’t have a choice. Refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy was the only solution. He couldn’t have flown out.
With the wisdom of hindsight, he’d have been better facing Obama’s administration. It’s been shown they had huge qualms about even pursuing him due to the press (investigative reporting) and free speech implications. Obama did commute the sentence of Chelsea Manning too, albeit after Manning’s suicide attempts.
Trump vs Biden seems to offer very little by way of comfort for Assange. Although a Biden presidency could at least be concerned about the aforementioned journalism implications.
None of this justifies moraly what has happened to him – but moral is not what you do is it? UK/US society talks all the time about morals but the powers that be flaunt them as much as they can get away with – mainly due to docile idiots like you
LOONY!!
It’s a pity Julian did not seek asylum in Scotland.
Scotland? Asylum? lol He would have had a palliase supported by 4 Alphabet Witches taking him straight to Dunoon or Prestwick for extraordinary rendition.
“Assange chose the timing and Assange chose his own location. He is now living with the consequences of those choices.”
Nonsense. Julian Assange had the complete and legal right to seek and receive political asylum. That is an international human right. It is not bail skipping, it is not absconding, it is not ‘choosing his own location’. It is called political asylum.
Not admitting that fact is an abuse of the letter of the law.
The fact that Julian Assange is in solitary confinement is an abuse of the law, and his human rights.
The fact that Julian Assange is in a maximum security prison, instead of free on his own recognizance or a low security prison, is pre-trial punishment and an abuse of process.
Julian Assange has never been convicted of anything. Yet he is locked up with convicted terrorists and murders for the duration of his detainment.
Julian Assange’s rights to confidential communications are not recognized in the court. Not only should UC Global’s streaming privileged conversations to the CIA/US State Department be enough to throw the case out. This is the same State Department that is assisting the UK’s prosecution in court and whose word the magistrate Vanessa Baraitser relies on. Magistrate Vanessa Baraitser even stated that Julian Assange should communicate with his lawyers by shouting across the court room. That’s a joke.
Lastly, Julian Assange, unconvicted, is awaiting a hearing for extradition for an offense which he cannot be legally be extradited for. Which is in the act that he is being charged with, the Extradition Treaty of 2007, Article 4 prosecution of political and military offenses. Julian Assange is charged under 18 USC Chapter 37 titled Espionage and Censorship, Par. 793. Espionage is a crime against the state, which makes it a political offense. And Julian Assange cannot be extradited for a political crime.
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Extradition Treaty of 2007
ARTICLE 4
Political and Military Offenses
1. Extradition shall not be granted if the offense for which extradition is requested is a political offense.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/243246/7146.pdf
He should be out of jail, immediately.
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US charges:
Counts 1-17: 18 USC Par. 793 (g, b, c, d, e)
Conspiracy to Receive/Obtaining/Disclosure of National Defense Information.
Count 18: 18USC Par. 371 and 1020
Conspiracy to Commit Computer Intrusion.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1165556/download
18 U.S. Code CHAPTER 37—ESPIONAGE AND CENSORSHIP
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/part-I/chapter-37#
18 U.S. Code § 793.Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/793
He did the right thing
Unfortunately the US government were not willing to admit that what they were doing was wrong
And they went on to say that even if they did
They would still punish him because
They don’t want anyone else thinking they can do the same thing
Loony by name, loony by nature.
@Laguerre: As someone who crossed the UK border zillions of times, I can assure you there have always been many ways to leave unnoticed. I am in fact quite surprised that Assange did not attempt to flee, I am sure there would be many people ready to give a hand.
As a hint, there is no identity document control when leaving the UK. Especially the Eurotunnel route is damn easy – neither British nor French border guards ever bother to check the passengers. To sail away in a private yacht from a small harbour is even simpler.
@ kashmiri April 15, 2020 at 23:05
He would have been very carefully monitored. Assange was not a ‘cleanskin’.
Trust me Kashmiri, if you are under surveillance, you are ‘tracked’ to any border’ and ‘welcomed’ by foreign ‘trackers’ once you cross a border. I went on holiday in Switzerland years ago, hiring a car at Geneva and it became clear to me by Martigny that I was being tailed. I pulled into a residential village, drove around a couple of times and lo and behold, the tail did the same.
I even had one cretin tailing me when I walked the West Highland way. He reminded me of the buffoon in Crocodile Dundee II, so bad was his tailing ability.
I had a member of the US ‘armed services’ ‘escort me off US territory’ at Dulles, making it clear to me that they had killed and would kill again. The powers of abrogating critical thought and doing what you are told unquestioningly…
Once you are on the goons’ radar, very hard to get off it again…
Who was tailing you and why
Kashmiri, while doing a runner, may in retrospect, appear a sensible option. Wouldn’t that have seriously damaged Julian’s image even more.Had he done so, the press and media would have had a field day, not reporting that he was fleeing from US injustice, but that he was a grubby sex criminal, perv seeking to avoid justice being served. In fact, that line is still bobbing around, and pops up now and again via subtle hints and references to Sweden.
Have you heard of cameras, software, and GCHQ? There are ways to exfiltrate, but if you think boarding Eurostar with a ticket would have worked for Julian Assange you are living in cloud cuckoo land.
It would have been a total inversion if JA had fled. Why should the person, who reveals the criminality of others, be doing the running? Blair, Bush Cameron and all those other fuckers should be doing the running.
And Clegg.
To choose to become a martyr is not a mark of stupidity. There is no better way to serve a cause.
As Tertullian observed, the blood of martyrs is the seed of the Church.
Tertullan was long ago and far away.
Moving somewhat closer to contemporary times we are invited to ask “When the law break in, how you gonna go? Shot down on the pavement or waiting on death row”
In a world of bad choices hanging around in Belmarsh seems close to the bottom of the list.
The execution of James Connolly was not far away and not so long ago. Executing him by shooting him sitting in a chair when he was too badly wounded to be able to stand did as much as anything to convert the Irish to the cause of independence.
It’s very thoughtful of you to share the benefits of your insights, but shouldn’t you be out burning down educational institutions, in accordance with your beliefs?
Assange as sacrifice turns out to be what is likely to happen. Removal to the US, and then what? Long time in a US penitentiary, with threat of death? It’s what you risk, if you go against the US. He knew it.
You are making:
a) a logical mistake: your premise is that you can look back at Julian’s entire life. You can’t — he is still alive.
b) a judge/mental mistake: Julian is currently the most succesfull journalist and publisher ever, and the one with the largest impact and integrity.
assange didn’t have a choice once the machinations against him were set in motion, first in sweden and then britain. the embassy was his only way to escape rendition to the u.s. and the tender mercies of an obama administration in which chelsea manning was ultimately driven to a suicide attempt.
Whatever may happen to Assange in the future it seems reasonable to conclude that his journalism/publishing career is over.
It is also reasonable to compare Assange with Snowden as both revealed information to the public that that the US administration wished to remain private. Both were targets of US retribution. Snowden foresaw the consequences of his actions and planned accordingly. Assange either failed to foresee the consequences of his actions or failed to plan.
So he deserves whatever he gets for being brave with a pair, unlike you?
power is knowledge, information is democracy – the only condition for democracy – but you dont have the pair to see that ..
Never lose sight of the crucial fact: Assange told the truth about appalling and criminal acts of the US (and British) state both in military and foreign policy acts. Nothing else is even vaguely relevant compared with this. And those truths have never been refuted. Yet people obsess about “flaws” in his character and methodology, and the media still pumps out stuff about him being a “narcissist” and sex abuser.
None of those who peddle this stuff have EVER lifted a finger to expose the criminal workings of states, and none of them have the spine to do a 100th of what Assange and Wikileaks achieved.
I am not so sure Snowden planned very well or far ahead. In fact, he ran into serious difficulties in HK, then was taken in charge by several good souls including as it happens Assange, who helped manage his escape.
My goodness, you lot let “Loony” troll you!
i’m not sure loony is trolling, seems like a typical right winger to me.
I’ll tell you what – this company should be employed filming the current UK weirdo Cabinet and the SAGE group.
Lovely shots all round and that evidence will come in very handy when the government and some advisers are either witnesses or the accused in the upcoming Court case.
The two year – not us Guv laws that have been passed will only last as long as this government lasts.
The BBC have in a sense already done this in HD but some backup is always useful.
Julian Assange should be released as many other non dangerous prisoners are across the UK.
Unless Julian has a specific dangerousness attached to him?
It seems he does, according to the Judge.
I’d like to know what the danger is?
I’ve heard he has a lung condition and he’s therefore at risk.
If he dies in Prison – who’s responsible for his avoidable death?
I repeat this government will not always and forever be in Office.
Sir Starmer would be just as hard on poor Julian.
@ michael norton April 15, 2020 at 22:50
How the Unions pushed that creep as Leader of the Labour Party proves that the hierarchy of the Unions needs a good pruning.
Sir Starmer got where he is today by doing what the Yanks wanted….
Well, he is a member of the Trilateral Commision, so that is hardly surprising.
@ Blue Dotterel April 16, 2020 at 09:58
You’re right – thanks for the info:
‘Sir Keir Starmer: The establishment candidate, the Labour Leadership race and the Trilateral Commission.’:
https://labourheartlands.com/sir-keir-starmer-the-establishment-candidate-the-labour-leadership-race-and-the-trilateral-commission/
I had only been a member of the Labour Party for about 5 or 6 weeks, but quit the day they chose that creep for leader, though I didn’t know about the Trilateral Commission angle.
Jeremy Corbyn has warned his successor as Labour leader not to get into a government of national unity with Conservatives to help fight the coronavirus.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/coronavirus-corbyn-labour-leadership-keir-starmer-unity-government-a9444921.html
Is it true that Boris Johnson has invited Sir Starmer to attend COBRA?
I wonder if it’s ‘legal’ to ‘think’ ( conspiracy theory) that the Corona will be introduced to Assange accidentally to avoid further embarrassments/expenses to the UK and USA etc etc. People are so worried about their own lives that it would go unnoticed!
O. Georgio.
Yes it must be tempting to the UKUS state security sector.
@ Doug Scorgie April 15, 2020 at 22:40
Lot cheaper than a cruise missile, and comes with (im)plausible denial.
O.G, if he dies in prison, millions of us will notice and not forget. He will become a martyr of sorts, that is not necessarily in his enemies interests. They would rather punish him indefinitely (as they have done) as an example to others.
Furthermore Assange could well survive Corona, even if he’s in poor health, I just hope he’s being prescribed vitamin supplements, especially vitamin D.
And tens of millions will not notice because they are likely to have never even heard of Julian Assange. I have to suggest to you that only types of people who read websites like this are aware of who he is and what he has done on for each and every free thinking citizen in every country. Some people think no further than what they can see and their minds are beguiled by has-been tv celebrities, cooking and dancing contests (not at the same time) and other vacuous personalities who lead the lives they can only day dream about. By and large the nation is comprised of an abundance of ill-read and unconcerned adults and the proof for that lies in the result of the last general election.
I truly hope Mr Assange survives his ordeal and that those responsible for what he is experiencing are brought to account. I worry for him in every respect and I am disheartened by the treatment he has received from Judge Baraitser; my only contribution is that I, in a small way, support what Mr Murray is doing in his writings. Please keep writing, Mr Murray.
US politics is bat crazy at the moment. There’s more than one government and Trump is very far from being in control.
I think you could fairly say that about the UK as well since Johnson sacked some very senior Tories last year.
I think Assange is yesterday’s news because Iraq was 17 years ago. Obama’s endorsement of Biden is only to annoy Trump about Ukraine. Obama is a nut case anyway because he set up Islamic State, presumably to please Saudi Arabia which is also a nut case.Trump is not nuts, and he finished Islamic State and he declared his intention to drain the neocon swamp.
At the moment it looks as though the UK is very frustrated with Trump interfering with the progress of neocon madness.The CIA getting the UK to extradite Assange i could be a way of provoking Trump into doing something that upsets Israel.
It all seems to be about internal US politics and getting the Neocons back on track with destroying the world.
When you consider how virulent the BBC was against Corbyn during our election , and vile the skulduggery launched against Salmond, it looks as though the shit is emanating from the UK and their partners in crime, the US Democrats.
Baraitser is a willing slave to the UK, not the CIA.
There is a certain insane trillionaire, ex US poodle, who said he would take personal responsibility for the invasion of Iraq.
Personally responsibility might mean different things to different people. Thatcher said it meant looking after no 1.
The Bible says it means reading your book of deeds on the Day of Judgement.
I think it’s fair to say that Blair’s interpretation of personal responsibility would be making sure the truth didn’t come out, or if it did, the exposes would be severely punished.
The Mafia Godfather version of Christianity.. I have absolutely no doubt that some people I let into my house planted some cameras in it, Blackmail is not just the prerogative of Christianity. The Ottoman Empire was brilliant at it.
Britain keeps a nest of Asylum spies in London who are expert in the dark, un- British arts of blackmail and espionage. This is the new normal and every government in the world is engaged in it.
But what goes around , comes around, and what Bojo and Bliar got up to on their Caribbean holidays will come back to bite them, not because you or I will see the videos, but because the blackmailers will have got them to bomb Baghdad or Libya, Kosovo or Damascus.
The albatross is hung around their neck for services to Israel, and a certain sort of Faustian dementia sets in. Right now , Boris Johnson is probably being given his future orders.
Faust is fiction. Neocon destruction of the Muslim world is fact.
@Giyane –
“US politics is bat crazy at the moment. There’s more than one government and Trump is very far from being in control.”
Did you see his “you know you’re fake” tantrum at the press conference? He’s not going to win the election. I won’t be surprised if he doesn’t even get the Republican nomination. He’s got a (severe) personality disorder to go with his (mild) personality cult, and he’s at risk of kooking out live in front of the cameras. Mental illness emanates from him – from the way he holds his body and his head, his facial expressions, his tone of voice. Ceausescu and Mussolini were both germophobes like him but they couldn’t have survived that kind of thing for long and neither will Trump. One day, and that day could be soon, he’s going to say something so mental that denying he said it and asserting that Joe Biden or Nancy Pelosi said it instead wont save the m*****f*****.
The Gaullists won the French election in June 1968, but De Gaulle wasn’t visibly insane. Trump doesn’t represent order or tradition.
Got to wonder which candidates or possible candidates in this year’s US election the Wikilinks network may be assisting.
Little need for any fresh truths about Biden. His entire career has been dedicated to serving the most predatory sectors of corporate America and the war machine, probably why he’s so popular among “Marxists.” Recent months have also revealed he’s a senile rapist.
So true Marxists are backing the youthful anti-sexist Trump then?
Even preadolescent Marxists could tell you Trump and Biden are both class enemies.
he’s got the republican nomination sewed up n, and he’s in a stronger position now than 2016. biden is an even weaker candidate that clinton, less competent and with possibly even more baggage. they can’t let biden out for an extended debate 1 on 1 with trump, he would get destroyed, and his dementia would become obvious even to the most sycophantic right wing democrats.
The reason Trump will lose (or withdraw) isn’t Biden.
Trump is a wannabe dictator (there is so much to indicate to that effect; it’s not rhetorical exaggeration) who lacks the mental balance to be able to control himself when a journalist asks him a challenging question, suffering an obvious mental health event and declaring “You know you’re a fake”. That is an OK look for some kind of “Up yer arse” candidate such as Vladimir Zhirinovsky, but not for an incumbent. (If you disagree, can you point to any parallels?) Even Silvio Berlusconi who once mimed shooting a journalist didn’t project the image of a little baby going red in his face and in fact he is highly skilled at turning on the charm.
Trump cannot simply sail through this on the strength of the idea that his opponent isn’t great. He is weak and vulnerable. If Trump were to stay in this race and a point were to be reached where Biden looked unelectable, another candidate could arrive, either third party or to replace Biden. Four months lie between now and the Republican national convention. In many countries they will be one of the most momentous periods in living memory. There will be further coronavirus surprise for absolutely certain. Trump has not got a “father of the nation” brand. Extremely spoilt infant who needs to be given a chance to scream himself hoarse is more like it.
it’s not that biden “isn’t great”. it’s that he is as bad as trump. i fully expect the democrats to installl somebody else either before the election or shortly after, and he or she will, again, be as bad as trump. we are faced with 2 truly awful candidates, whether it’s trump and biden, trump and clinton, or whoever gets the nod.
It matters not a jot what should be, what matters is are current events. I see these mad press conferences as a boxers training camp before a big title fight. The title fight being the Presidential debates between Trump and Biden. Trump trains by spending two hours plus having a daily shouting match with a room full of hostile reporters. Biden is sequestered in his basement struggling to read a TelePrompTer.
Trump will turn up at the Presidential debates like Mike Tyson in his prime, Biden will channel the guy from the Mr Muscle oven cleaner ads.
Trump: “Every part of my record has been the greatest ever. I’m greater than Julius Caesar. I’m greater than Napoleon. Every American is 43% richer now than they were under Obama. And my opponent Mr Fakey the Fake is an old man who forgets stuff!”
Audience in the Rust Belt, voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012, then for Trump in 2016: “Forgets stuff, forgets stuff.“
N_
My point was that Trump is much too engaged with what’s going on to either be mad, like Blair, or vicious, like Vanessa Baraitser. I think its more likely that the foaming Democrat neocons have incited Blair or his legal wife to attack Assange when he is Yesterday’ s news.
Trump lacks polish, but Obama, oozing brylcreme , launched a savage terrorist attack on the borders of europe. That was raving Covid bonkers. Trump put them back in the box. To me Trump is irrelevant to The Assange Extradition. Unfortunately there are political forces bigger and nastier than countries or Federations.
These people wield massive malign influence.
Baraitser imho is the very scary face of private money.
The British state is apparently unable to control people like Blair, or indeed Cummings, who ought to be locked up in straight jackets and sent on a Virgin , one way rocket to outer space.I like Trump’s nerves. It proves that he’s human.
Cummings is all over the Covid-19 opportunity: the ek-spurts behind the lecterns, the “NHS! NHS!”, the threefold messaging, the “solution” that’s being implemented in care homes – and now the Torygraph has a “data journalist” team.
In a nutshell the Cummingsite view is “the proles won’t mind the Einsatzgruppen units coming to get them, so long as they’re flying NHS colours.” It is scary to realise that most of the left are unaware of this, and most of those on the left who know it are too frightened to say it.
Cummings is the guy whose hardman uncle Phil’s nightclub in Durham was notorious for its “quaddies” (quadruple vodkas served in a pint glass and a half-pint glass) as well as the occasional fatal beating delivered by bouncers around the back. Students who have been lucratively encouraged to get absolutely blotto on alcohol are STILL falling into the river in Durham and drowning. Meanwhile the Tory scum who sell them the alcohol talk knowingly about “Darwin”, as if the said Tory scum are genetically superior and not of course guilty of anything in any way. But wait, oh they LOVE the NHS so much, and anyone who says otherwise is a traitor or “conspiracy theorist”. Have I got that right? They “love” “chavs”, they love working class elderly people in care homes, and of course they adore working class single mothers claiming benefits most of all.
Those who think the rulers would never (oh so never) put a value on a human life had better a) whack themselves over the head with a stick until they start to get some sense, and b) check out what “QALY” means. While they’re about it, they could find out what the “Multi-Disciplinary Teams” are that meet at hospitals.
It wouldn’t surprise me if Covid-19 has been deliberately introduced to many elderly care homes.
Unfortunately most leftwing people won’t want to consider this idea, because a) they haven’t read it in the MSM, b) they “know of no direct evidence for it”, and c) deep down, they can’t believe what capitalism and the ruling class are really made of.
Why “clap for the NHS” when it’s Hitlering all the old people? That’s not really clapping for the principle of universal healthcare free at the point of use, is it? It’s clapping for the Tory party and the bourgeoisie.
Step forward, the Guardian: “Coronavirus: vulnerable people may die alone due to impact on UK home care. Oh whoops-a-f***ing-daisy! Who’d have thought it?
Listen to this… (from the Guardian article):
“Thousands of isolated, vulnerable people living at home face ‘falling through the cracks’ in the next two months unless the government steps in to protect them, the body representing their carers has warned.
The United Kingdom Homecare Association said financial pressures resulting from the coronavirus crisis, including the spiralling price of personal protective equipment, could force a significant number of the UK’s 8,000 home care providers to close within weeks.”
“Falling through the cracks” – what a euphemism! Paramedics have been told not to attend care homes if anybody has the temerity to call an ambulance when an elderly person shows respiratory symptoms (for which up until a few weeks ago they would be rushed to hospital). GPs have sent out letters to members of certain groups telling them they should sign “Do Not Resuscitate” forms. Have paramedics also been told not to attend elderly and vulnerable people living on their own who report such symptoms?
Nobody has responded here yet to my reference to “QALY”.
You know the way schools write in pupils’ files whether are they “clever” or “average” or “stupid” and then teachers teach them and mark them accordingly? They also tell exam boards the pupils’ “predicted” grades. (What on earth is the point of that, you might ask.) Right now, “because of the coronavirus”, exam boards are actually giving pupils precisely the grades they have been “predicted”, on the instruction of teachers – something that many scumbag dimwit teachers have pushed for for decades (They hate the idea that a pupil might take their intellectual development out of the school’s control – a massive case of “dog in the manger”.)
Got to wonder whether the medical system doesn’t do the same, namely write down your life expectancy and perhaps even how your “quality of life” will change over the time you’ve got left. I’m suggesting that they then treat you accordingly. And that now they aren’t just predicting and treating; they are actually enforcing. Never mind “nature” or “randomness”.
I doubt the The Donald is barking, his sister is a retired judge, his uncle John George Trump
was a renown Physicist, he might be dumber than both those two but he is not dumb in the way Biden is.
* Having sane siblings doesn’t make a person sane.
* Not all physicists and judges are sane.
* “Mentally ill” is not the same as “stupid”.
* Do you know about Donald Trump’s father Fred’s first son, also called Fred, and the effect that his self-destruction through alcoholism had on Donald? (That’s got nothing to do with Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, or George Soros, but it’s a point of entry for those who want to consider Trump’s family relationships and their effect on him.)
N_,
Everything you have said about Trump is true, he is a mentally ill, narcissistic moron, who appeals to tens of millions of others who are similar to him.
“CIA Spying on Assange’s Privileged Legal Conversations”
That is the case now for EVERYBODY. Solicitors will not meet face-to-face with clients in case of virus/hobgoblins. It is all taking place by phone, whether land-line to land-line or land-line to mobile, there is no possibility of confidentiality in such ‘privileged’ conversations. Even if it were face-face, with a mobile-phone on any or both persons, or in the vicinity, that confidentiality cannot any longer be and is best not assumed. Somebody somewhere if not listening, IS storing these, all conversations, storage is cheap and as good as infinite.
It is no longer just metadata -any and every mundane phone call too and probably for donkey’s years back. Welcome to the Omnipticon. Visuals too, from space, in terrifying resolution, remember Duncan Campbell and Zircon Spy Satelite, it seemed doubtful but he opined he’d been told it could read the tiny print (R E G A L) on a fag-end on the ground, clouds permitting, from space and that was the mid to late 80s. It seems more credible, more likely and technically possible now, it need not matter if you’re ‘of interest’ plain voyeurism of the watchers is enough. Every civil right we all took for granted has been incrementally taken away, leaving you none. What can do we do however, except flail uselessly? What counter-measures are possible, where it’s not self-inflicted?
Cardinal Richelieu (allegedly) said:
“Qu’on me donne six lignes écrites de la main du plus honnête homme, j’y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre.”
“If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.”
What to do? Stop carrying cell phones.
@ lysias April 15, 2020 at 23:23
Until they require you to have an ‘app’ to enter a supermarket, get on a bus or train, never mind a plane.
Possibly even to walk the dog.
Poland has already got an app you have to put on your phone if you are quarantined, and within twenty minutes of them phoning or texting you, you have to take a sellfie in your location, to prove you haven’t broken quarantine:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8143509/Poland-forces-coronavirus-patients-prove-theyre-indoors-selfie.html
https://www.politico.eu/article/poland-coronavirus-app-offers-playbook-for-other-governments/
I got rid of my (old-fashioned) mobile when I retired about 8 years ago; I didn’t like the idea of having a device that is constantly irradiating me with microwaves, and which can be used to both track me and broadcast any sounds within earshot even when switched off, should the PTB wish to enable that facility remotely.
Some parking meters require a mobile to operate (I got rid of my car the day I retired (I was a mini-cab driver) and increasingly bank online transactions and online purchases are more difficult if you don’t have a mobile.
“I got rid of my (old-fashioned) mobile when I retired about 8 years ago; I didn’t like the idea of having a device that is constantly irradiating me with microwaves, and which can be used to both track me and broadcast any sounds within earshot even when switched off”
I call them “microwave trackers”.
The reason they are telling these lies in Britain about “the peak” (often repeated by those who have no idea of the difference between a turning point and a point of inflection, and nowhere near the intelligence needed to form their own opinion about the spread of this virus, but who internalise it as their DUTY to repeat whatever they’re told to keep the filthy dirty rotten chav scum in their place) is probably that they are about to say “Don’t even think about us lifting house arrest or allowing you any medical treatment if you refuse the app.”
That’s why they keep talking about NHS “badges”.
It’s always been the case that the British equivalent of the Einsatzgruppen would wear “NHS” on the epaulettes. I often wonder at many leftwingers’ unwillingness to recognise just how full of hatred and how hypocritical our enemies are.
Serious question: which country do people think it might be reasonable to escape Britain to go to? Poland isn’t on the list, and there will be more Polands in the next few days. Will even a single country’s government break ranks?
Here is Boris Johnson’s speech at the United Nations in New York, city of his birth, from Sep 2019.
Every commercial office building should be required to sign off that construction did not include installing bugs into walls. Using the title deeds as collateral….
I very much doubt that 99.9% of them could do that.
But it would be a start in exposing the way the MI5/6 axis has installed a Pandora’s box of bugging all over the country.
Loony
More to the point , Iraqis know extremely well how fatal it is to stick one’s neck out and speak against imperial warmongering fascist dictators. Iraqi oil reserves are pumping out free oil and dollars for USUKIS while their people starve. Journalists are murdered with their families just for raising questions. The Westminster dictators might therefore come to the conclusion that they have been too soft here in Britain.
We all thought our democracy protected our civil rights but that is not true any more.
Sorry, that was in reply to Loony’ last comment but accidentally arrived here
The way this lot go on it wouldn’t surprise me that the government claimed the Russians had hoarded all the Spy Camera in the world in order to spy on the world so they wouldn’t be able to do that.
This is the claim re: PPE and some agents ( not the spying type ).
I also wonder what happened to the Facial Recognition Surveillance in the light of mask wearing in London?
Totally agree with what you say and they whinge about 5G.
Most laptops may have US spying chips in them.
Don’t tell that to David Aaronovich though otherwise he’ll write another interminably dull book on it.
@ Ken Kenn April 16, 2020 at 13:11
‘…Most laptops may have US spying chips in them…’
‘Bigger fleas have littler (Middle Eastern) fleas upon their backs to bite ’em’.
The pandora’s box is currently being installed all over the country in the form of smart meters. GCHQ played a major role in the development of smart meters, ostensibly to help make the meters resistant to hacking. Do you think the surveillance state would for one moment stumble at the opportunity to place a remotely accessible wi/fi / bluetooth exploit node in every citizens home? Hell no, look up ‘weeping angel’ revealed by Wikileaks, the software developed by the CIA/GCHQ to exploit and listen via the built in microphones fitted in smart TV’s. Homes are now full of wifi / bluetooth enabled devices. Of course it will not be used to spy on everyone, but if you are considered undesirable, a political threat, a union activist, a critical blogger like Craig, likely as not it will be used to spy on you. Here’s how it works, they connect to the smart meter over the mobile network using it’s inbuilt SIM, the communications chip then sniffs for wi/fi / bluetooth devices in the vicinity, Alexa, tablets, TV’s (42% of UK households have a smart TV), wifi CCTV, door bells, games consoles, sky TV boxes – basically anything with a microphone. Don’t worry about passwords and encryption on these devices, it’s not a problem for them. Oh, then there’s mobile phones and secure communication apps like Whatsapp and Signal which the security services despise for their over network encryption, not a problem if you can access and read the messages on the phone at each end via bluetooth.
Smart Meter tear down – look at 3:15 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G32NYQpvy8Q&lc=Ugyq7yHi8T30hQBjsWN4AaABAg.97EJs1mqP2Q97EOKpVwP0G
https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/information/the-smart-security-behind-the-gb-smart-metering-system
“(Incidentally can anybody explain why the precise image you see there is an image which does not appear at any stage when you run the video? I am not even hinting at anything suspicious, just technically interested).” The video is a cut of perhaps many hours of the original recording, to fit a 3’47” news piece. The cover image must have been taken from a different part of the recording, perhaps one with less movement/blur.
The fronting image not being in the youtube video is a bit odd. A reverse image search finds other cuts of the original full length video that get much closer to the fronting image e.g.: https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/assange-ueberwachung-101.html (note no ABC banner either).
My guess is the image was put there by youtube automatically and the video edited afterwards. Any other explanation requires somone to have deliberately chosen the image.
So NDR in Germany is also suing UC Global because some of their journalists’ rights were trampled on.
Good.
Reminder: Youtube is a brand owned by the Great Satan called Google, which works closely with the CIA, NSA, and Unit 8200.
Spare a thought for Julian’s family and how distraught they must feel at their son’s suffering and the likelihood that he will go from bad (UK ‘justice’ system) to worse (US ‘justice’ system). There is a fund-raiser for John Shipton at
https://www.gofundme.com/f/saving-julian-assange
The gofundme page includes the following about John.
John sold his beautiful family home, which he totally rebuilt himself, relocated his family interstate and gave up his amazing campervan to the cause; the iconic JulesMobile2.0. He has put his own life and his family’s life on hold to travel country to country on a gruelling schedule, living out of a suitcase, to lobby governments, world bodies and media organisations, to participate in forums and panels, doing back to back interviews, and working with some wonderful high profile individuals in what has become his life mission and quest to save his son. This has not only taken a huge financial toll to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars, but also an extraordinary emotional toll which most of us could not ever begin to imagine.
Hi Craig ,
I admire and support your extensive coverage of the Assange case .
But the story doesn’t seem quite right somehow . If the authorities wanted to end the problem they have any number of ways to achieve that and get the outcome they want .
Also there’s never been any follow up on the case of the strange disappearance of Arjen Kamphius that I’ve been able to find , and I don’t think you have commented on it .
What is really going on here ? Are we all in some gigantic psy-op ?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/new-conflict-interest-evidence-against-uk-judge-charge-assange-extradition-process/5704662
Expose the corruption of the judiciary involved in this affront to justice. Dump Vanessa Baraitser!
Prosecute her and all those involved in corruption. The justice system in Britain and US is broken.
Including Keir (Criminal) Starmer
Mrs. Baraitser is the bottom clog; her boss Lady Arbuthnot has more influence, also on this process.
Well done Craig on your streamed vigil contribution, I thought it was excellent. Get your point on the legal team aspect it must seem rude for us to presume we may know better. As for surveillance a US serviceman based at Their Feltwell base told me 20 yrs ago that they took everything, every call every text.every email. Echelon I presumed. So go low tech with anything important, typewriter, classified ads etc.In 2003 it felt like they ripped my heart out as I thought we had done it, over 2 million of us tried to stop a war and that was just London . Then politicians sold there souls and sold us out.Its time for us to come again, we all know who we are, we are the ones that nearly acted on a number of different fights, but didn,t quite.If we do not act now we betray every family member that ever fought or died to ensure our freedom and right to free speech . On this point can anyone advise me as to whether we have a legal defense of necessity in this country. Thanks Paul.
@ Paul+Peppiatt April 16, 2020 at 05:10
Re the politicos selling their souls over Iraq – ‘How Labour officials tried to drive out anti-war activists’:
https://www.counterfire.org/articles/analysis/21111-how-labour-officials-tried-to-drive-out-anti-war-activists.
(By the way, I suggest you revisit your name over the ‘comment’ box and remove the ‘+’; it got added to a number of names due to a technical glitch).
It looks to me Assange is being held by the deep state who are stringing out the extradition hearing hoping he dies in custody, because if he was extradited (or freed), Trump could pardon him and allow him to testify against the Democrats/deep state.
Trump could pardon Assange now, or merely order his Justice Department to drop the case. If he did either, there would no longer be any reason for extradition or for holding Assange in Belmarsh.
You can imagine the howls of rage that would arise from the Democrats if this happened.
Is there much difference between the Republicans and Democrats on foreign policy? They seem to cooperate closely, and with the CIA too, in the National Endowment for Democracy. Neither of the two parties seems to have a problem with the Fulbright Program either, which is one of the most important means for spreading and maintaining US influence globally. Then there’s the Five Eyes signals intelligence agreement. And the global power of Google and Facebook. Do they differ on any of these?
Perhaps this is too mundane a viewpoint for those who jump to use abstract notions such as the “deep state”, sometimes inspired by a dream of “true journalism”, a fantasy which is truly very “USA”. If I hear about “speaking truth to power” again, I may throw up.
Lysias
Trump could not pardon Assange without incurring the wrath of Israel whose active support is necessary for his re-election. In reality, better to sacrifice one man, than deliver the world to the corrupt neocons like Obama and Clinton.
Trump wants America to be loved, but even Bison crossing a river full of alligators don’t try to negotiate with alligators who is and who isn’t going to be eaten.
This is a miscarriage of judgement. Incredible that it is not being shown on the BBC, ITN or Sky. We are living in a failed state.
The UK state is unfit for purpose. The judge presiding over this charade needs to be suspended. No wonder UK is leaving the EU & the European Court of Justice. Any independent review of this trial would condemn it. But we have not (yet) left the European Court of HUman Rights nor the United nations.
Any state which acts in this manner is not fit to be called a state. It has become a rogue state and not fully independent if its justice system and judges can be bought by a foreign power.
Britnats sometimes indulge in the false narrative that they are ‘lions led by donkeys’. If the USA is allowed to get away with this outrage, the UK state is ‘Donkeys led by donkeys’ (with apologies to the three lovely donkeys two fields away, who are remarkably gentle, wise and tolerant).
The only way justice can be resuscitated is when Julian can appeal Baraitser’s verdict, a verdict I suspect she wrote some time ago.. Surely this must be appealed to the European Court of Human Rights?
A comment made by Pete at 2119 April 15th may be highly instructive as to why Assange finds himself in his current predicament.
Pete’s comment constitutes a petulant response to my having informed him that the title to monies deposited in a bank legally rests with the bank and not the depositor. Pete thinks I am lying – but does not bother to spend the 2 or 3 minutes necessary to check. Further Pete implies that even if I am not lying then the banks would use this legal privilege to routinely deprive depositors of access to their deposits. A more nuanced piece of research would reveal that the routine purpose for such legal privilege is for banks to inflate their asset base for both accounting and lending purposes.
Perhaps the thought processes of Pete are similar to those of Assange when he chose, at least in part, to rely on the counsel of Baltasar Garzon. Sr. Garzon is a former activist Spanish judge most notable (outside of Spain) for his attempt to have General Pinochet arrested in London.
The problem with seeking the arrest of Pinochet is not that no case existed against Pinochet but that there was never any possibility that the UK would extradite Pinochet to Spain. All that Garzon achieved was to force UK taxpayers to fund an extended luxury holiday for Pinochet in the UK. Few people in the UK wished to finance a fascist former dictator of a far away land. The desires of the British taxpayer were never for one moment considered by Sr. Garzon. Partly as a consequence of his role in the Pinochet affair Sr. Garzon was removed from his role as a Judge by the Spanish authorities.
Naturally the people that conspired to force British taxpayers to fund a fascist are the very same people who view the bulk of the population as being nasty racist bigots. They are also the same people who express bemusement that the British population does not rush to man the barriers in defence of Assange.
…and so the question remains what motivated Assange to seek the counsel of a man who sparked diplomatic discord and destroyed his own career in what was always an entirely futile attempt to have Pinochet arrested. Perhaps like Pete he simply could not be bothered to spend a few minutes checking out some basic facts, and even if someone else made him aware of the facts he either disbelieved them or misinterpreted them.
Loony – “All that Garzon achieved was to force UK taxpayers to fund an extended luxury holiday for Pinochet in the UK”
Is this true? I thought a bunch of right wingers paid for it.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/boris-johnson-rakes-ps20k-defender-fascist-chilean-dictator-pinochet
Yes it is true.
What you are looking for is a Cost Order issued by the House of Lords in July 1999 which obliged the UK taxpayer to pay the legal costs of Pinochet.
You appear to have a sympathetic view of wealthy British people that is not supported by the evidence. Rich people tend not to pay for anything themselves when they are able to obtain what they want via the public purse.
Sr. Garzon was merely assigned the role of useful idiot in a scheme that had no other purpose other than to force UK taxpayers to pay the costs of a Chilean fascist.
“the title to monies deposited in a bank legally rests with the bank and not the depositor.”
The legal title, not the beneficial title.
That is correct – hopefully the use of the word legally served to differentiate as between the legal and beneficial ownership.
When you deposit money in a bank you are legally lending it to the bank.
but bankers are not fiduciaries and can loan most of it out or use most of it as margin money for punting.
Loony
You are right. The late Sterling Moss should have spent a few minutes considering the recklessness of his occupation and Assange should have farmed sheep instead of pissing off the neocons. But what you are scared to lose, you will lose anyway.
Plenty of Australian sheep farmers have watched their land being scorched to the ground.
You would have thought, while Assange was doing his Wikileaks zRisk Assessment, he might have taken into consideration the spinelessness of politicians, journalists and senior diplomats who all, like sheep, preferred to draw their considerable salaries and pensions, than stand up to criminal warmongering.
If it’s not been possible at this time to connect this call, try taking your sim out and giving it a good clean.
Loony
Or like the African Tour Guide who was swallowed twice, once head first and once feet first, by an angry hippopotamus , whose surgeon’s reply to his self-pity was: ” You are the sum total of all the decisions you have ever made.” That is the meaning of courage and courage is stamped all over Assange. He should be being honoured like that 100 year old war veteran.
It is a question as to whether you are playing to win, or playing for some other reason. If you are playing for some other reason then you will likely have a problem if your opponent is playing to win.
Edward Snowden understand this, and so he played to win.
assange is playing to win in either case; you define “win” too narrowly.
I’m still trying to unravel the Baraitser mystery. I have moved to a paper trail, turning up all sorts of interesting but irrelevant information. My South African contacts have retrieved her father’s history and even that of her grandfather, Abraham. Michael Baraitser’s great chum was Anton Obholzer, a psychiatrist, who was chief echief executive of the Tavistock Clinic and creator of the Nazareth conferences, a project to keep the Nazi atrocities in front of an amnesiac world. Many in the Baraitser family have links to Israel, Marion, Michael’s wife, Alexandra, another daughter, is an accomplished artist, with much interest in Israel. There are many twists and turns in this narrative, many of them sinister. There is talk that Vanessa married a Russian jew, and uses her maiden name to deflect controversey. I’ll be at the GRO soon, but she may have married in Israel.
Good work Monster.
I suppose that would qualify as good work if you are an obsessive stalker.
the judge made her choices, ruling the way she has done time after time is bound to provoke interest in her background, so she should have expected this.
In this case passionate scrutiny and analysis of background. The art of truth.
Monster, there is nothing at all on her at GRO and she does not appear on the UK register of electors. This may imply she is a foreign national and thus ineligible to vote in the UK. Or not. The daughter Alexandra is married and lives in Suffolk. The plot definitely thickens. Is she purportedly a solicitor or barrister, I can check with the professional associations of both professions. If she isn’t what is her profession and standing as a judge?
She’s a solicitor. Her SRA (Solicitors Regulation Authority) number is 165246. Source: the Law Society.
They’re a law unto themselves, these Judgeresses, pursuing personal agenda far and away beyond the law itself and their remit, simply making it up as they go along.
If she’s pursuing a zionist revenge agenda, their default mode even for imagined slights, that would seem strange, as Assange/Wikileaks has not once ever to my knowledge released anything that the zionist state would find or has found objectionable, the various vaults and so on have simply contained trivial stuff, hardly secret at all and probably publicly available, like the once famous Bell telephone systems manuals, which courts deemed top-secret information, allegedly worth tens of millions of dollars, but which at the same time the public could purchase them for insignifcant bucks, if they so desired. Either he is keeping it, the jucier stuff, doesn’t have anything, never received anything, or stuff he receives has been sifted or filtered before release. Has he ever so much as expressed an opinion on that regime’s gross human-rights violations spanning more than half a century?
He has never though my (admittedly partial) knowledge uncovered anything especially detrimental to Israel, other than in the context of the wider wars of choice of the coalition of the killing doing their genocidal bidding. Oil obviously matters and other than as guardians of the toe-hold in the near-east that Israel represents, it’s occupants Khazars or true Semites (the Palestinians) are utterly dispensable. The diplomatic cables folder for Israel was empty but for some test ‘hello’ messages. There might have been one or two snippets in Killary’s emails. The much vaunted VaultX stuff was worthless chaff. Any talk of a dead-man’s switch is moot if he’s not had internet access for a long time and the sky has not fallen in on them (yet), though public opinion has shifted mightily which they’ll no doubt hypocritically attribute to the cattle’s irrational atavistic tendencies, without irony or reflection on their own considerable and recurring fetishised group moral deficiencies.
His persecution and torture, just short, so far, of cold-blooded murder – and Hillary and many more would have had no compunction in having him gunned down cold in central-London if she’d not been carted off the loony-bin after Seth Rich’s murder – is real, it’s the justification for it I can’t comprehend, other than pour décourager les autres, for doing what all journalists with a shred of honesty or self-respect, which they singularly lack, all citizens too in fact, should be doing –speaking unpalatable truths to power.
“Zionist revenge” is always congruent with the interests of the USuk boss class; it’s what zionism is for. American Caesar’s support for the Saud perverts has the same motive.
CIA spying on lefties? The dogs, doing their jobs without so much as a fair warning, instead of getting drunk and selling out their country like Aldrich Ames 🙂
PS. The above is not a serious contribution.
Why are we talking about where relatives of Maj. Baraitser live or what her children may be up to is causing me some concern.If the reason is to imply some sort of threat then that would be a disgrace and if anyone believes that these type of actions will influence Maj Baraitser in Julians favor then they are wrong. Maybe Maj baraitser does not realise who she is working for, she has probably never even heard of Theodore Shackley or his mentor Reinhard Gehlen former SS commander , surely it would be mad to think that she knowingly would be complicit with these Nazis. Let us see, as for her family leave them in peace or run the risk of becoming no better than they. We have the moral high ground and should not descend into the tactics used by the cowards who persecute this shameful crime.
….. because she has ruled that Julian Assange’s children and their mother are fair game.
If she can dish it out then surely she can take it.
>>talking about where relatives of Maj. Baraitser live or what her children may be up to
may well attract the attention of Special Branch, and give the appropriate people an excuse to close this blog. Not to mention SB knocking at your door. That is the way society is now headed, and Baraitser herself has some pretty good connections.
Re: “… not including the truth about the “uuh missile that hit this building” (Pentagon) on September 9th 2001.”
I’m not sure what truth you’re referring to, but whatever it was may simply have become obscured by all the commotion during the still-mysterious events at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.
From my law days I remember, https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Crim/2005/1089.html Grant v Regina
” we are in no doubt but that in general unlawful acts of the kind done in this case, amounting to a deliberate violation of a suspected person’s right to legal professional privilege, are so great an affront to the integrity of the justice system, and therefore the rule of law, that the associated prosecution is rendered abusive and ought not to be countenanced by the court.”
Is this no longer good law?
Bear in mind that in the case someone was accused of conspiring to murder his wife and the case was chuck ‘cos the police bugged the police cell.
But the hearings about Assange are not a trial as to his innocence or guilt — only as to whether the extradition treaty allows the UK government to extradite him to the USA.
As to innocence or guilt, Assange is an australian journalist who published some USA government stuff in Sweden and was visiting the UK; publishing USA government stuff is not a crime in Australia or Sweden or the UK either.
Wikispooks include John Pilger’s comments on the ‘trial’.
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Vanessa_Baraitser
Thank you Mary and Monster, great sleuthing and fact finding. Off course we shpuld not level with a Governmwnt and its judiciary, that has been found wanting and? Somewhat in a state of chatic deliverance, cannot dare to come up with an exit strategy for reasons of their very own prepubecent political fears.
Sad you?, you will find that manufacturers and entrepenneurs and businesses will find ways of carrying on with the same ‘normal’ before you realise.
By the end of May people will get so restless, still yearning for financial support from a rigid old bpy banking sector that still demands that we pay their full rates for money they have been givwn in lieu.
If this cabinet can not test 100.000 people/day by end of April, they will be sued by the medical profession. Maybe that will not make them wake up to their croniism, but it will at least give them some bad publicity abroad. God bless and pity the bbc and the guardian dor the infiltration they are partial to..
Ps. Why are shelfstackers in supermarkets key workers whilst care workers? Immigrants or not, who are looking after people like Tom, are not even mentioned by sliplip Raab or anyone in the cabinet?
Another ps 200 Romanian fruitpickers are being flown in to harvest our fruits and veg. , with more to follow, showing how shallow their so called locals and nationals first policy lands on its face.
Those few Atlanticist connoseurs de culo, some 10 % of the electorate, are taking this country to the brink whilst culling our loved ones with incompetence and bluster. Basta!
Thanks for the info about the
traffickingflying in of the Romanian fruitpickers. No doubt all the correct boxes were ticked for full compliance with the Modern Slavery Act 2015. A heck of a lot more than 200 people will need to be found from somewhere to bring the main harvest in in the autumn. Basically there will be forced labour either of British citizens or foreign citizens, plus army reservists getting their hands muddy (if they’re not all needed to impose the “cleanliness” lockdown on inner city estates), and even that won’t stave off famine but it might make sure some focaccia gets to Hampstead and Kensington and an occasional Mother’s Pride finds its way to supermarkets elsewhere.PS Speaking of lowpaid immigrants, what has happened with the servant-class cleaners at Oxford and Cambridge colleges (known as “scouts” at the former and “bedders” at the latter)?
James, she took that action not her family and Minority of One makes a good point lets not be reckless we are guests after all.
Paul+Peppiatt – you are, of course, right. We should not stoop to their disgusting level. If we do, then sooner or later, this will make us just as bad as them.
As far as the blog goes – the mods are at liberty to delete anything they see fit.
Illuminating thread on the new Labour leader’s role in the persecution of JA and his connections to the intelligence communities in London and Washington DC.
https://mobile.twitter.com/DCKennard/status/1250344315777212416
The image is probably an independent snapshot, Craig. Quite possibly motion activated or taken by control at the other end.
Does anyone remember Alan Ba’Stard? You might want to watch this in relation to the NHS/COVID-19:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVltOSC0JMQ
And this one on Brexit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeiGLSy-1zU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Statesman
“B’Stard is a selfish, greedy, dishonest, devious, lecherous, sadistic, self-serving ultra-right-wing Conservative backbencher, a sociopathic schemer who occasionally resorts to murder to fulfill his megalomaniac ambitions.”
“In the stage show it was revealed that Alan had been the architect of New Labour when he realised the Tories were done for (effectively ignoring the last episode of the series), picking a young guitar-playing hippie named Tony Blair and grooming him to be PM. B’Stard transformed Labour into a second Conservative Party, eradicating socialism and effectively running the country from his palatial office at Number 9 Downing Street.”
“Alan’s schemes grew wilder and more bold as the series progressed taking in bribery, murder and provoking Trade Union disputes to make a profit. Later, B’Stard would intentionally mismanage the Tory election campaign so Labour would be blamed for an economic crisis, stage his own assassination to bring back hanging (and make £1,000,000 in the process). In the last episode he creates splits in both the Tory and Labour Parties and names himself Lord Protector.”
History imitating art?
Wow, that Brexit one is prophetic. Close your eyes and it really could be Johnson.
How in God’s name was he allowed to get away with that!
I have a question. Who appoints a judge to consider a specific case?
Specifically, I am interested in what is the legal procedure for selecting a judge for a trial? Whose responsibility is it?
Parliament? Queen? Some kind of committee?
I would like to know the names.
Very good question Tatyana, I think the Public Prosecuters office sends a list round and the judge picks one he wants to do, obviously there is a bit of government “influence” some times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director_of_Public_Prosecutions_(England_and_Wales)#List_of_Directors
Director of Public Prosecutions
incidentally
the new leader of the Labour Party Sir Keir Starmer was at one time ( 2008-2013)
Director of Public Prosecutions
As an interesting aside, during Sir Keir Starmer’s time as DPP
In December 2009, a warrant for Livni’s arrest was understood to have been issued by a British court, following an application by lawyers acting for Palestinian victims of Operation Cast Lead. The warrant focused on Livni’s role in Israel’s war against Hamas-run Gaza earlier in the year, and was withdrawn after her visit was canceled. For several years, Palestinian activists have made largely unsuccessful attempts to prosecute Israeli officials in European courts under universal jurisdiction. The warrant was issued on 12 December and revoked on 14 December 2009, after it was revealed that Livni had not entered British territory.
The British Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, contacted Livni and his Israeli counterpart Avigdor Lieberman to formally explain the incident and apologize on behalf of the British government
Miliband had expressed concern at the situation and said officials were looking “urgently at ways in which the U.K. system might be changed in order to avoid this sort of situation arising again”.
Michael, it’s hard to believe they let judjes to choose cases. As if a list of current cases is a box of assorted candies, please pick what you like and treat yourself 🙂
Michael, here is what I discovered following the link.
DPP – is the third most senior public prosecutor in England and Wales (after the Attorney General and Solicitor General). The holder of the role is appointed by the Attorney General on the recommendation of a panel that includes the First Civil Service Commissioner.
Today the DPP is Max Benjamin Rowland Hill, since 1 November 2018.
Mr. Hill’s appointment was made on the recommendation of a panel that includes the First Civil Service Commissioner Ian Watmore (since October 2016), who is also appointed by The British Monarch on advice of the Prime Minister.
Mr. Hill was appointed by Attorney General, who is appointed by The Monarch on advice of the Prime Minister. It must be Geoffrey Cox, since 9 July 2018, his personal life section in Wiki mentions Tavistok – the word I bet I’ve seen on this blog recently regarding Baraitser.
The third most senior position is Solicitor General, deputy for Attorney General, whose duty is to advise the Crown and Cabinet on the law, can exercise the powers of the Attorney General in the Attorney General’s absence.
Appointer: The Monarch on the advice of the Prime Minister, term length – At Her Majesty’s Pleasure.
In November 2018 it must be Robert James Buckland.
I love your photo with your mask on Tatiana !
hmm, you are not the first to say “like your photo with a mask”. I hope this is because of my incomparable gorgeous beautiful eyes 🙂
not because of that the mask hides my malicious mocking grin making me look more or less friendly 🙂
Wash your hands and please stay at home.
Well, where I’m living, we have to wear a face mask if we go out on the streets. I have a rather nice PLO style scarf to put round my mouth and nose (you know – Yasser Arafat style, except it has to be around the mouth and nose rather than on the head). Now I’m looking for a kalashnikov to complete the fashion ensemble.
You should be OK. They seem to have discovered that the Coronavirus death rate is much lower in former communist countries and they think that it is because the tuberculosis vaccine was compulsory in these countries (and somehow it strengthens the immune system against Coronavirus).
— “Wash your hands, and stay indoors!”
Great advice, changed my life.
Thank you, Baked Potato!
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Baked potato, great 🙁 Exactly what a tired housewife needs in the evening, being quarantined in the same house with her husband and teenager son, who constantly eat something (as if there are no other activities besides chewing, and as if they were not afraid to grow their own bulldog jaw). For a housewife who finally got to the forum to find out maybe the latest news about the fate of Assange, maybe share the latest gossip, or maybe even shamelessly hint at compliments … and the same thing, here – POTATO!
ПАМАГИТИ!
No, no! Don’t eat the baked potatoes! Listen to their advice!
Have you noticed that potatoes squeal when you remove then from the microwave oven. They are saying (in Spudese):
“Wash your hands and stay indoors
Only go to grocery stores
Keep your distance, make some space
Remember not to touch your face”
So please thank your baked potato before you chew on it. Baked potatoes can save your life!
you are heartless, Mr. George Dawes 🙂 I say ‘I’m tired of recipes’ and you respond with a comment full of ‘potatoes’! 🙂 🙂 🙂
that is a little bit reckless of you, Mr. Dawes. You probably don’t guess how easily a housewife gets mad, when tired of cooking 🙂
You don’t understand! The potato is the medium, not the message.
Listen to what the baked potato say!
Don’t eat the messenger (unless you’re really hungry, or even just a little bit peckish).
Mister Dawes, I listened to the Baked Potato song from the very beginning, and the fact that I am listening to the Baked Potato songs does not add to my mental health. Absolutely. Rather, the opposite. 🙂 🙂 🙂
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1184259.The_Right_to_Know
is 36 years historically distant, but it was the most political trial of the 1980s and it highlighted how the Attorney General was not above saying to the Press that they hoped ‘that a suitably severe member of the judiciary would be on hand to hear the case’. Counsel for the Defence expressed their displeasure in measured but unmistakeably forthright- and ascerbic tones….
If you want to see a political trial from start to a NOT GUILTY verdict, this book is about as good as it gets in recent political justice trials in the UK.
One of the worst Attorneys General was Dominic Grieve in recent times. He deprived Dr David Kelly of a lawful inquest into his unnatural death. An inquest was opened by the Wiltshire Coroner but it was immediately subsumed by the Hutton Inquiry by Falconer on behalf of BLiar. That was a whitewash. In the High Court Grieve fought against a group of doctors who had applied for a judicial review of his decision not to grant an inquest.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13709515
Where is he now? No longer an MP. He lost the Tory whip when he voted against Johnson on Brexit. He became an Independent but was booted out by the Beaconsfield electorate last December. Back to the law presumably. He is a barrister, not a barista!
New Labour seem to have been juggling with Old Tories for top spot on most awful government Law Officers
but also for manipulating the law to favor the government of the day against the ordinary serf.
@Tatyana – MI6 has its own barristers and judges, just as it has its own medics, dentists, and people working in the process by which laws get drafted (in the “executive”) and in the process by which evidence gets heard by Parliamentary committees (in the “legislature”), but most of this has been never been talked about in public by anybody other than the late Corinne Souza. (Her book “Jasmine’s Tortoise” is recommended, as are many articles she wrote for Lobster magazine.) MI6 is like a British KGB except it is hard to exaggerate the role in Britain of elite private schools. Full control over which cases get assigned to which judges, and perhaps even only over the dates when hearings take place, would afford control over ANY country – just as much as, ooh, say full control over underground railway security in the city of government. Which is why this sphere is intimately bound up with the power network in the country and is not independent, at least not where sensitive matters are concerned, such as in the Assange case, or in anything to do with the royal family or Lloyd’s of London, etc, etc. In the end it is all mafia.
Incidentally top civil cases come with much more cachet attached than top criminal cases, for obviou$ rea$on$.
I don’t know why people are mentioning the CPS or DPP in this subthread, because choice of judges isn’t up to them although they may of course provide a conduit for influence. They’re not the court system.
This manual describes how the allocation of cases to judges is supposed to happen in the crown court.
(Julian Assange is not in the crown court – he is in a magistrates’ court which is a kind of court that mostly considers more minor cases and is presided over by fools who are often from branches of local political parties but who more importantly hail from the inherited-wealth part of the local area. Some of them sit on NHS committees and school governing boards and sh*t like that. They don’t usually know the difference betweeen their задница and their elbow where the law is concerned and they do whatever the clerk of court tells them, who does whatever the police tell him, although perhaps not when the police go too far and might be in danger of making how things really are in Britain look too obvious).
But anyway, back to the crown court: section 14 of that manual is the one you want. “Listing is a judicial issue”. That means it’s done by judges. Apparently there was a “Concordat” (I’m not making this up) between the Lord Chief Justice, the Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs, and the Lord Chancellor set out in a statement to the House of Lords on 26 January 2004. (That’s three “Lord” references in a single sentence.) Basically the “circuits” (regions) have “presiding judges” who are responsible for “listing”. They will be well known at the high tables of elite private schools, at the high tables of Oxford or Cambridge colleges, and in the “best” Cathedral closes – and they will probably have wives (or husbands or gay partners) who are trustees at prestigious global-reach “charities” that can drop somebody who is skilled at gathering information into Addis Ababa or Baku at a few hours’ notice. They will be skilled at making up reasons for stuff and at having “safe hands”, otherwise they wouldn’t have got the job. There is a “resident judge” at each crown court, but the “presiding judge” of the circuit can give him a “friendly word” if required. The “presiding judges” have one among them who is “senior”, a post that even has its own Wikipedia entry, presumably written by a bureaucrat who considers himself a proper user of a knife and fork. As you can see, all of the Senior Presiding Judges since 1983 when the post was set up have been proud recipients of royally-bestowed styles “Sir” or “Dame”. The current holder has a lot of NHS connections I see, not only on her own account but also through hubby at King’s College London
There’s a list of “Resident Judges” here. Something tells me they don’t like it up ’em.
WikiLeaks – public enemy Julian Assange | DW Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgw6FoFPhjo
This ties in with the above video worth a view
I thought I would check out laws that are active in the US today, seemed relevant as our esteemed law makers are now following their lead.
Reassured?
I believe 26 states enforce Berufsverbote as well as their collective Constitution.
Tonight (Fri 17 th April), UK, ITV, 10:40 pm Piers Morgan’s Life Stories.
I don’t usually have much for Piers Morgan, to say the least, but tonight his guest is Pamela Anderson and apparently she will be talking about Julian Assange: “Pamela Anderson reflects on her career and personal life, including her first husband’s imprisonment for spousal abuse and her relationship with Julian Assange.”
We’ll see.
Awful, absolutely awful. She had nothing to say. Might have been edited out but I did not get that impression.
Your allegiance to the former Soviet is somewhat admirable but maybe the committed should consider it better to be loyal to ideas rather than people.
Ideas are bulletproof and dont expose themselves to a Harlots enmity. It’s smarter…
Semanticleo
Talking of Harlots, and avoiding their enmity, there was a delightful little duet on the 10 PM News on Radio 4 yesterday.
I think it must have been from a Gilbert & Sullivan spoof on an Italian opera , it was so neatly choreographed and performed from separate microphones and separate bedrooms in lockdown harmony.
The bit of BBC fluff, Soprano, and Disgusted MP from Tonbridge Tomas Herr Tugenforlock, Tenor, were debating , in fake urgency whether China had started Covid19 accidentally or even deliberately, and how as well as wanting to bug Conservative MPs on the toilet with Huawei they supplied inadequate toilet paper to the selfsame self respecting self servers of Integrity Initiative from the BBC and militaree
Cosy van tutti, eat your heart out. CHINA BAAAD. TORY GOOOOD. This was tutti frutti Tory foamingology rendered to music by the BBC.
Tomas Tugendhat has a degree in Islamic Studies , speaks Arabic, served in Iraq and works for British Intelligence. Definitely in the long tradition of colonising military spies thrown up by the British mediocrity to punch above our weight in the world by divide and rule.
Just who he thinks he is , to accuse a beautiful and ancient civilisation like China of being a criminal dictatorship, a liar, spy , and manufacturer of shoddy goods when he is a military spook residing in a suburb of London, Allahu ‘Alamu.
But he thinks he is very important and sits on the Tory Foreign Affairs Committee which opposes Huawei in 5G and is now accusing China of lying about Covid 19.
Little man, the history of British imperial shame is littered with wankers like you. Crawl back under the Triassic clay of your Edenbridge constituency. That’s the closest you’ll get to the garden of Eden, you warmongering mouthpiece of Empire 2.
Here he is with 39 other Conservative Friends of Israel at a lunch to welcome Regev’s deputy.
40 CONSERVATIVE MPS AND LORDS ATTEND CFI LUNCH WITH DEPUTY ISRAELI AMBASSADOR
November 16 2017,
https://cfoi.co.uk/40-conservative-mps-and-lords-attend-cfi-lunch-with-deputy-israeli-ambassador/
He is the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee.
He has visited Israel under the auspices of the Academic Study Group. Who they?
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=25374
It is yet another of those pro Israel groupings, given charitable status by the Charity Commission. An educational charity. Of course.
http://www.foi-asg.org/asg-home.php
Its Executive Director is a member of the Zionist Federation. http://www.foi-asg.org/reference/profile-john-levy.pdf
Their accounts are 170 days overdue and their directors are listed as Avril Petrie and Sir Walter!! Sir Walter Raleigh?
After you Charity Commissioners.
https://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/CharityWithoutPartB.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=801772&SubsidiaryNumber=0
Why, our very own Home Secretary takes her holidays in the Stolen Golan.
According to the Bible, the Israelites conquered Golan from the Amorites.
According to the U.K. government we should no longer, even be planning a holiday, unpatriotic or something.
The thought police seem to have taken over our country,
they are carefully squeezing every last ounce of individualism out of the populace,
we have entered a phase of Orwellian State.
Jenrick was peering over the podium today.
See his Wikipedia entry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jenrick
Personal life. His wife is Mishal Berkner.
Note the £24k pa we fork out for his rented house in his Newark constituency. He lives in London. Remember his delivery of food and supplies to his parents in Herefordshire when the lockdown was newly declared and the stink that followed? One of the journos today took that up again. He had a plausible answer ready as if he had advance knowledge of the question.
He offered no new info on Johnson.
Well said Giyane – I just love the thrust of that piece.
Mark,
My guess is that there is for people who hold office and have tasted power certain things that go with the terrain.
They are by virute of high office – respected or even reveered.
It is unusual for the average ‘Joe’ or ‘Jane’ instinctively to question and/or challenge.
However, when the dirty linen is visible on the nasty clothes line (e.g. as Craign Murray has shown with the Magistrate’s underwear within the Assange hearings – then we can all see – then say – his/her underwear is far more dirty than anything I have ever worn as an honest citizen.
Seems that is how things work in general.
Courtenay
N_
Tom Tugendhat was criticising China for supplying inferior PPE after China has completed months of Lockdown. I just could not believe this spoilt brat whining that China should now be in full scale production when nobody has the slightest idea what will happen when lockdown ends.
Tugendhat was using very strong language to the interviewer’s suggestions that maybe China was still in shock, and starting to analyse the statistics. This lack of humility was disgusting. He ranted continuously that China had lied to the world about the virus, and refused to acknowledge that this country had ignored the warnings about the threat of coronavirus for decades, and took 3 months to twig that it was coming this way.
I hope they sack him immediately , like Rees-Mogg. He seems to be the most unbelievably aggressive little pit-bul like Gavin Williamson and Ian Duncan Smith rolled into one arrogant piece of Tory stupidity.
However it’s obvious he was taking advantage of the PM’s absence to score points against Johnson on Huawei, unlike Jeremy Hunt who is sensibly keeping shtum
What kind of deranged person could possibly accuse China of lying.
A country of 1.4 billion people suffers less than 4,000 deaths from Coronavirus . New York city alone has suffered over twice that number of deaths.
Thanks to you we know that China cannot be lying and so the only other possible conclusion is that the Chinese are a race of Nietzschean supermen. People that belief in the superiority of one race of people over other races ordinarily share many traits in common with Nazi philosophy.
Ergo you appear to be a Nazi. Unless of course there is some other explanation as to why Chinese people suffer substantially no ill effects from Coronavirus. Any other explanation would need to be cognizant of the fact that the wise and munificent Chinese leadership closed down the economy of China in order to protect its people from nothing at all.
Speaking, as you do, of the beautiful and ancient civilization of China consider this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Few8kJ0zfnY
Ah so beautiful and so ancient!!
Gnōthi seauton.
[ Γνώθι Σεαυτόν = know yourself ]
“What kind of deranged person could possibly accuse China of lying.”
I don’t know. A Loony, perhaps?
“Thanks to you we know that China cannot be lying and so the only other possible conclusion is that the Chinese are a race of Nietzschean supermen.”
Typical of the flawed logic that pervades the vast majority of your posts (pity, because a few of them display some incisive thought). One could come to lots of other viable conclusions from Giyane’s comment.
“Ergo you appear to be a Nazi”
I’m sure that if one looked back at some of your previous comments the same cheap insult could be hurled at you.
I suspect that on the spectrum of lying governments, the Chinese are probably in the median range and probably compare favourably with the records of a few “Western” governments
All governments lie – It’s the stock in trade of politicians no matter what their political hue. Indeed it’s a core skill required of any modern day politician if (s)he is to stand any chance of progressing very far up the political greasy pole. That’s why Jeremy Corbyn’s political career was ultimately unsuccessful. He was far too honest and principled to succeed in Westminster politics and refused to compromise his principles and descend into the political sewer like his rivals both within and without his own party.
” New York city alone has suffered over twice that number of deaths.”
Says someone.
” Unless of course there is some other explanation as to why Chinese people suffer substantially no ill effects from Coronavirus”
Another explanation would be that all the statistics are rubbish.
And the EU is consulting its countries over a ban on foreign takeovers, speculators and rip of merchants, the the City, Wall street, Moex and Beijing’s money men can be rest assured that their establishments ruses are kept to their own countries.
And Nietzche had nothing to do with it.
@Frank Hovis – Your post pretty much nails it (apart from the bit about Jeremy Corbyn) – including my own short comings.
Obviously China lies. – all governments lie. I have no idea as to the magnitude of their lies, but about mid range would seem intuitively sensible. In the current farrago China is little more than a sideshow. No-one knows how many people have Coronavirus, there are plausible stories that people dying of substantially anything are being deemed to have died from Coronavirus. Consequently no-one can calculate the case mortality rate, and no-one can begin to calculate the costs of shuttering the economy.
A lot of people seem to equate the economy with some guy that earns $50 million/yr and collects original Picasso’s. In reality the economy is the mechanism that literally puts food on peoples plates. North America has shut down roughly 15% of its meat processing capabilities. Farmers in Ontario are busy smashing industrial quantities of eggs that cannot be transported to market and onions are being ploughed back into the land in the US.
The consequences of all of this are not yet known. Would you rather risk dying from Coronavirus or starvation? Thanks to western government lies and misinformation the answer is “don’t know, don’t care, and I got to go mate”
Excellent tirade.
“CHINA BAAAD. TORY GOOOOD”
No word from Jeremy Hunt then? 🙂
The only question relates to the efficacy of Chinese mortality numbers from Coronavirus. If they are true then an explanation is needed as to why they vary so dramatically from figures seen in substantially every other country.
If no such explanation is possible then you are driven to the conclusion that China is lying.
I am aware of no plausible explanation that would involve eitherJeremy Hunt or the Tories – and you provide no indication as to the relevance of either in this matter.
I too can write in languages other than English – but whilst this may serve to massage my own ego it is also entirely irrelevant as to any determination regarding the efficacy of Chinese Coronavirus statistics.
Lately – according to our media China has taken up ” Spying ” usurping the Russians.
Of course in the UK MI5 and 6 just ” keep an eye on things ”
Except maybe the Skripals?
Apparently according to a spy source the Daily Telegraph is a terrible paper for Spies.
” Due to the low quality of the paper itself you can’t cut prefect spy holes for each eye in order to sit on a park bench and spy on people ”
George Smiley preferred the Observer at the time – particularly its Sports pull out – so I hear.
I do wonder whether there are Gentleman Amateur spies like the old time athletes ?
Perhaps Rees – Mogg does a bit whilst he’s not counting his money?