I am not going to publish a photo of Tiger Woods’ elbow or knee, purely because I haven’t got one. But if anyone can send me one, I shall gladly show you his knee and therefore render myself liable to imprisonment by the infamously ludicrous old fool Mr Justice Eady, who has the same attachment [...]

Having failed to intimidate me, the Quilliam foundation have now written to my webhost in the Netherlands, threatening to sue them in England (English law claims effective universal jurisdiction on libel). They are demanding that my webhost pays damages to the Directors of the Quilliam Foundation. You will recall that Alisher Usmanov got this website [...]

Another libel lawyer’s letter arrived late this afternoon from Clarke Willmott for the Quilliam Foundation, funded by your taxes (if you are a UK taxpayer). As with their first one and their email, I give it in full so you can see their side of the story: Download file They now acknowledge that they only [...]

I replied briefly to Quilliam’s lawyer’s letter threatening me with libel action: http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2009/11/all_blogger_ale.html#comments Thank you, I should be most grateful if you could send me a copy of the Quilliam Foundation’s accounts, which you say have in fact been filed. Craig That drew this response: From: Rachael Gregory [mailto:Rachael.Gregory@clarkewillmott.com] Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 4:39 [...]

The media have bought hook, line and sinker the story that Thomas Legg has been hard on poor MPs, making them pay back gardening or cleaning bills over an arbitrary limit. In fact, on average those MPs asked to make a repayment are being asked to pay less than 0.25% of their salary plus allowances [...]

In KLM lounge at Schiphol. Having been given the choice of the Telegraph or Mail on the flight here, I feel compelled to note that the attacks on Gordon Brown over his eyesight are completely out of order. The media of course was quite happy with David Blunkett – blindness is evidently OK as long [...]

I have just realised that the man appointed to head the formal investigation of MPs’ expenses is Sir Thomas Legg. That removes any possible doubt that this will be a total whitewash. I suppose it was impossible to expect that a genuinely independent minded figure of authority would be appointed. I have come across the [...]

I don’t think Cameron is a malicious charlatan like Tony Blair, nor as avaricious – he doesn’t need the money. But there is something of the Blair about him – good looking young politician delivers touchy feely lines of dubious sincerity. One of his concluding lines summed it up for me: “I see a country [...]

Where do I find the campaign to stop Blair? A massive task of mobilisation lies ahead to prevent the elevation of Tony Blair to President of the European Union. The issue has potential to unite the vast majority of the British people. Imagine the Countryside Alliance and Stop The War demonstartions combined. It is essential [...]

Everybody in London with any connection to the media knows that Baroness Scotland’s ex housekeeper, Loloahi Tapui- Zivancevic, is loudly denying that Baroness Scotland checked her immigration documentation, and canvassing selling this story. So why are both the BBC and Sky reporting Ms Tapui- Zivancevic’s arrest without mentioning the fact that she is calling the [...]

More evidence that inane Blairite cheerleader John Rentoul and Margaret Beckett are in fact the same person. Rentoul is plugging Beckett as the new Speaker to reform the House of Commons. http://johnrentoul.independentminds.livejournal.com/89412.html That’s Margaret Beckett, who for years lived in a government “Grace and Favour” mansion as a minister, while at the same time the [...]

After being knocked to the canvas for the third time in two minutes, nose split and gums bleeding, Ricky Hatton-Brown struggled to his feet and said: “Errr, I god ad good idea. What if we change the rules, so the guy is nicest to the other guy winds, rather than the one who hits him [...]

I have just finished reading an absolutely brilliant exposition of the banking crisis by John Lanchester in the London Review of Books (hat-tip George Monbiot). Lanchester’s explanation of how the disaster happened is clear and brilliant, though it need concentration and a nice cup of tea. These are his conclusions, with which I generally agree: [...]

Here is a photo of something really disgusting at Silvio Berlusconi’s luxury villa. View image Italy is agog with the publication by El Pais in Spain of pictures of naked people during romps at Berlusconi’s villa. Personally, I find war criminals (and that is a photo of Blair on holiday in the villa) much more [...]

Led by Lord Mandelson, whose titles now include “First Secretary of State and Lord President of the Council”, there are now seven members of the Cabinet in the House of Lords. Gordon Brown is bringing in his unelected cronies to rule us. This is an incredible step back in time for British democracy. It is [...]

This is not one of the many blogs that gives a regular critique of PMQs. But this is an exceptional week. I thought that Cameron’s performance was weak – well below his normal form. Interestingly, the quotes read well enough when Sky flashed them on screen, but his delivery was peculiarly hollow. Cameron today eschewed [...]

When Ministers vote with their feet, we should be allowed to vote with our ballots. Gordon Brown is plainly now devoid of all moral authority, and despite the volatility of public opinion and its ever increasing tendency to be caught in waves of emotion, the coming New Labour electoral massacre will only get worse the [...]

Given her husband’s viewing habits, I do hope she washed it first… UPDATE No, that joke does not mean that I believe the porn claim was the most important bad thing about Jacqui Smith. It wasn’t even the worst thing about her expenses. I have been working more or less full time for five years [...]

On the very rare occasions I see a copy of the Independent, I am always vaguely perplexed that it hasn’t gone out of business yet. Any paper that can employ Robert Fisk, but still be mind-numbingly dull, is doing everything wrong. Almost all of its journalists are third rate. Try to name off the top [...]

The current convulsion in our politics, and the meltdown in support for New Labour, will throw into sharp focus the risible unfairness of our electoral system. As a mechanism for representing the views of the British people, it plainly fails. That is true in “Normal” times, where just 42% of the vote can hand a [...]