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Saturday quiz
Well, this week I score 7/10, thus again beating political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 5/10. I did not know the answers to questions 3, 5, and 7.
Wilson v. Mendelsohn, Newbon (deceased), and Cantor
https://substack.com/home/post/p-154273243
As blogged previously, many times, I pity anyone who has Jewish fanatic Mark Lewis as his or her solicitor (and, yes, I do know that he has been on the winning side sometimes, though usually in open-and-shut cases).
Anyone interested in my views about Lewis (who was wont to tweet pathetic and men tally-disturbed insults about me, for years) can simply type his name into the search box on the blog.
Extract from James Wilson’s Substack blog:
“Mark Lewis and Patron Law – Patron Law’s website states that Mr Lewis is the “UK’s foremost media, libel and privacy lawyer”. This is a bold claim. In an email to me dated 1 March 2023 Mr Lewis stated “I do not think that you will succeed [at trial] given that [the person who published the Facebook post originally] has indicated that she honestly held the opinion that you were a weirdo. … However, that is the point of litigation and you might be able to persuade the Court that [she] did not hold an honest opinion that you are a weirdo.”
Mr Lewis’ statements make no sense at all and suggest a frightening lack of understanding about defamation law and the issues for trial. That Mr Lewis charges £600/hour for analysis such as this is mind-boggling. In reality: the opinion of the person who published the Facebook post that I was a weirdo, and whether I could persuade the court she did not hold that opinion, were irrelevant. What actually had to be proven – by the defendants – was that the defamatory statements in the screenshot were factually true, or their own honest and reasonable opinion. The defendants’ case here completely fell apart when the person who originally published the Facebook post gave evidence for them at trial. She was a truly awful witness whose evidence the judge found to be “wholly incredible” and “plainly untrue”.
There’s an old joke about Ringo Starr: “Ringo wasn’t the best drummer in the world… Let’s face it, he wasn’t even the best drummer in The Beatles”. Given what is above, the equivalent joke here is: “Mr Lewis is not the UK’s foremost libel lawyer… Let’s face it, he may have been only the seventh best libel lawyer in the Wilson v Mendelsohn case, behind four other libel lawyers and Wilson and Mendelsohn themselves, and they were amateurs.”
[James Wilson, blogging on Substack].
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One of the peculiarities of the modern mindset, seen since the 19thC, is the tendency to believe that those with enormous amounts of money are either giant villains or near-saints, and in both cases hugely intelligent. Not always the case. Many are average or somewhat above-average minds, and may or may not be correct on this issue or that.
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I can think of a very good disincentive but, in our “free society”, would be prosecuted were I to print exactly what I mean…
Tell me about it…
This can only end one way…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan
I had better not write what has come into my mind…
“Do Afrikaners think that the South African post-apartheid government ruined South Africa? It is not a matter of what Afrikaners think: the evidence is there for all to see.
There are 120 known murders per day in So Africa,
gender-based violence is horrific,
youth unemployment is around 50%,
sewage runs in the streets, water supplies are erratic,
the police participate in murders and kidnappings when not renting out their uniforms and weapons,
the education system has failed,
infrastructure is not maintained and is collapsing while money is siphoned off,
mafias are holding up construction work and kill for 30% of total cost of the projects,
cabinet ministers are implicated in crime,
pals of politicians (some illiterate), are being appointed as ambassadors,
corruption and nepotism are in every sphere of life,
mafias have been allowed to reduce commuter trains to rubble to benefit the taxi mafia.
There is no concern for the poor and the poorest of the poor, except when an election is approaching.“
[South Africa under black rule].
Yet thick-as-two-short-planks Nelson Mandela is still revered as some kind of secular saint and great mind in the UK. Pathetic. Largely the result of the propaganda put about in the 1970s and 1980s by biased idiots such as the BBC’s John Humphrys.
The old South Africa had its flaws, but what is now there is so much worse.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor_Caplin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor_Caplin#Early_life
How long before he claims to be the victim of “antisemitism”?
Ian Robert Millard 