Note that, here in defensive mode, Fawkes/Staines deliberately confuses the past with the present. The blog-posting above was specific to the breaking news of Crick’s new disclosures.

Note, too, that the assumption is that the only blogs read are those geared to the advertising therein (and, in the case of Fawkes/Staines, to the cloacal regions of the net and its barely-illiterate, red-in-top, tooth-and-claw denizens). These exploiters of a free resource become very proprietorial and defensive about their turf. In Fawkes/Staines that commonly [ambiguity intended] involves vulgar abuse.

More to the point: the “Newsnight” flash-of-knicker was posted under the by-line of Emily Maitlis at “19:01:35 BST”. None of the Tory attack-dogs, so knowing in their esoteric inner-circle self-admiration, had sniffed at it, well after Crick’s extended text was also on line. In other words, those up-to-the-minute hot-shots (Fawkes/Staines included) were well and truly scooped by the traditional media, notably by the Daily Telegraph.

They don’t like it up ‘em.

Can you read?

I am glad you thought the piece was useful. Cheers

Paul Mason, Newsnight

Hint about the questions: one is on a purely local basis, as a by election (no chance to influence national politics). The other is a hypothtical general election (presumably with Gordon Brown in charge).

This is an instant additional swing away from Labour for a genereal election. In fact 15½% of those who want a Labour candidate for Crewe and Nantwich (even a hereditary one) dislike Brown enough to vote Conservative if there was a chance of stuffing him.

To reply to your essential point: Nor, alas, am I. The whole environment of the Internet (perhaps that should apply to the whole Media thing) requires these instant philosophies, on any quibbling topic. Sorry: don’t do that.

I dread the notion of a mind-freezing “ideology”. I went through the Marxist thing. And then several others. None worked for for me, or addressed my addiction to decent red wine. But I’m working on it.

The difference being that I am doing it for the hope of an “idea”: you are doing it for the political advantage. And, quite frankly, I’d rather have you there than most of the other Tory climbers up that greasy pole.

A quarter of a century from now, you may see my points.

“I had promised myself to kill one Fascist — after all, if each of us killed one they would soon be extinct”

A worthy sentiment that we would all do well to remember.