After much delay, the trial began this week, on charges of incitement to racial hatred, of the much loved, ebullient and renowned nationalist organiser and speaker Jez Turner, or Jeremy Bedford-Turner, to give him his full name. This trial is the culmination of a great amount of effort exerted by various influential members of the Jewish community, particularly the so-called ‘Campaign Against Antisemitism’, who like most vexatious litigants, seem determined to perform an act of communally…

Following the showing of the first part, just over a week ago, of the new BBC drama serial ‘Gunpowder’, BBC executives have been criticised for what many have regarded as the unnecessarily gruesome and gory presentation of the Guy Fawkes November 5th plot to blow up parliament. While the programme allegedly features the most violent and viscerally gory scenes of torture and execution ever screened on primetime television, and disturbing though these scenes have been,…