Ostensibly political activity has to have a clear goal, and a plausible chain of causality, in order to be worth undertaking.

So, for example, the manifesto of this channel sets out both of those things: where we are going and how what we are doing gets us there. One might argue about its workability, but at least it has a real-world basis instead of being free-floating wishful thinking.

In contrast, "networking," and protests, are usually useless and may even be worse than useless.

Networking that is simply collecting a bunch of self-defined "right wing" people with no clearly defined goal is worse than useless because that category is just a rabble ripe to be led over a cliff by any opportunist with a silver tongue. Such a rabble includes, for example, "right wing" antifa worse than any leftist in a ninja costume.

Protests without an achievable goal and a causal explanation of how to get there are worse than useless because they give false hope and waste resources and opportunities. The latest 'steak knives' article (#15) at dailyrake.ca goes into this topic.

And so, a political party without a platform is not worth one's attention until they actually come out with one.

Sam Melia's trial begins today. This is another scandalous abuse of power by the anti-White government. I wish Sam all the best, and hope that the jury makes the right decision. We live in a world where paedophiles and rapists walk free from court, but decent family men stare down the barrel of a multi-year sentence for espousing opinions that are the contrary to the state's narrative on multiculturalism and mass immigration. This tyranny must end and it must be opposed by all decent people.

A week that’ll decide if I’m there for the birth of my second daughter.

I have faith that a jury of 12 members of the public will see this case for the state overreach that it is and find me not guilty.

I'm not pursuing appeals against my ban from visits. Instead I have and will continue to strip this channel down to our prisoners only, and without any editorializing. Then we shall see what happens when my three months of ban are up.

So the volume of messages here will be quite thin for a while, by design.

With my medical challenges behind me I have been sorting a backlog of personal matters these several past months.

For those interested: I shall soon have some more fun stuff and intellectual stimulation up soon on new channels.

Book thread. Here are the books I'm currently working my way through. You might notice a pattern. This won't be a regular thing!

I seem to have Covid again, because the symptoms are exactly the same as six months agowhen I caught it in hospital. They confirmed by testing that it was Covid at that time. The symptoms for me are quite different from flu or cold. It is mostly just a large amount of phlegm in the chest, along with fatigue and body aches. Also, pain deep in the chest when coughing so I avoid doing that if I can. I'm mostly sleeping and staying in.

I did some research: It appears that acquired immunity even against the same strain is not necessarily permanent. There is also a new strain going around called JN.1.

I am still sending monthly donations (those that want it) and cards to each prisoner. Just no books or letters because of the bans. I sent nothing in December so I'll have to catch up somehow. As far as I know, several bans on me have now expired (that is to say, they are past the date of review. Two others might expire in February, at least I shall assume so.

Just a reminder that donations can be made directly to Ash on https://www.gov.uk/send-prisoner-money. Let me know if you need his DOB.

Just a reminder that in the UK there is a statutory requirement for banks to provide basic bank accounts. My understanding is that these are harder for the bank to close, particularly in the case of free speech or political views: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/basic-bank-accounts

Yerbury's party will fail because he can't think except in talking points and fallacies - try engaging him in a discussion on almost anything and that's what you will receive, a lecture, usually unrelated to some point you raised.

Other kinds of people I cannot stand:

A person who invites one to a conversation and then leave one stranded waiting for a response to messages that never comes.

A person who organizes social meetups but whose main conversational strategy is inspired by their streak of sadism, namely gratuitously insulting and abusing his interlocutor in order to get some sort of amusing response out of them. Then lecturing them that they need to come along and "meet new friends" when they lose interest in dealing with him.