The Greatest Injustice in Modern Times?

The Greatest Injustice in modern times?
Having only just watched ITV's 'Mr Bates and the Post Office,' as with so many other citizens, I was given to certain reflection. I knew of the docu-drama well in advance of the transmission of the four-parter so was also well armed with the considerable weight of MSM-projected public outrage. 'The greatest injustice in modern times,' I was given to expect. ITV was certainly making a strong case in support.

Duly, I enjoyed the showing, semi-binge watched over two nights; the ubiquitous Toby Jones is frequently enough to draw attention. Whether it be political subterfuge or the search for buried relics there is invariably a great deal of Lance in his given role but then Lance was an amiable character. The viewer is soon enough on side with any of his stated aims, fictional or otherwise. But, is this now indisputable miscarriage of justice, as perpetrated by the Post Office and other complicit ministers, here on to be regarded as the 'greatest' of its ilk? The greatest injustice in modern times?

It's certainly a contender! But, I am going to suggest that the citizen, perhaps, views this sudden and towering elevation in light of the UK's current social hierarchy and its imbedded inequality, when coupled with the nation's present systems for delivering 'justice,' or 'injustice.' After all, just to remind the citizen, many of those who are most invested in our current UK social hierarchy of inequality will have, until very recently, featured amongst those most fervently wishing not to have 'Mr Bates and the Post Office' regarded as this argued 'greatest injustice.'

The working title has changed to: 'May we now call it Genocide?'

If not specifically care of ITV, then of the wider MSM, 'Mr Bates and the Post Office' has been presented, via the medium of evening 'entertainment,' as somewhat uncontested. That is to say that the story of injustice meted out to the sub-postmasters is now to be regarded as unparalleled in modern times.

In quieter circles, although not those occupied by closer associates of Paula Vennells, 'Mr Bates' might also be regarded as
'A jolly good day within which to hide bad news:'

in the light of much current political subterfuge, very much 'a convenient distraction behind which to hide a great deal!'

Step, momentarily, away from the 'Mr Bates' and the signs are clear; 'King Charles has developed a bodily ailment routinely associated with hundreds of thousands of males of a similar age' is really not headline news. In fact, in many families, it is not even news within the pertinent family. A worthy talking point on an issue of men's health, certainly, but yet another royal distraction, no thanks! If the MSM was slightly more involved with actual journalism and less mired in selling the agenda of a shrinkingly miniscule minority the queues for the headline slots would be full to bursting... and the royals would, more fittingly, be afforded the sort of publicity usually given to such matters. That would be, none!

So, 'Mr Bates and the Post Office,' the greatest injustice in modern times? Over 900 sub-postmasters, almost all of whom, wrongly prosecuted for theft, only just over 90 overturned, 33 have since died under a shadow of assumed guilt, four have committed suicide, several have served time in prison, many have lost their homes, some also their families. Paula Vennells, then CEO of the Post Office, awarded a CBE. Was this the greatest injustice in modern times? The argument is a strong one!

Here are some other contenders:
Windrush Injustice (2018):
British nationals denied legal and other rights, 83 individuals wrongly deported to a country unknown to the victim, loss of jobs, homes, denied national and (consequently) human rights, second and third generations denied a national identity, families, subjected to a deliberate 'hostile environment' by then Home Secretary Teresa May.
1995 Pension Act, WASPI women:
Nearly four million women, born in the 1950s, denied five years state pension, thus made tens of thousands of pounds poorer, ushering many into a state of pensioner poverty until death.
2019 Grenfell Fire:
72 residents burned to death in a residential tower known to have been constructed with dangerously inadequate cladding, 120 flats and communal spaces poorly maintained to a standard known to be potentially injurious to health. Compensation and liability legal cases continue to crawl through the courts. Guilty parties continuing to operate with impunity. Attempts to trace various culpable groups and politicians continues to encounter multiple obstructions.
2008 Banking Crisis:
Under regulation of banks 'causing' millions of people to lose businesses, homes, jobs, prompting governments to impose years of austerity upon those lower down the chain, those who did not cause the crisis. Millions of people suffer, in consequence premature deaths soar. The banks are bailed out with the monies (formerly businesses, homes, wages, livelihoods, amenities, social infrastructure) stripped away from ordinary working people and communities.
Ongoing Refugee Crisis:
Fossil fuel exacerbated climate crisis, international arms sales enabled wars and conflicts and Western (UN) imposed regime changes continues to fuel a spiralling refugee crisis. Colonial and other culpable countries fight to deny and turn away consequent asylum seekers.
2015 Anti-Semitism 'Crisis:'
A weaponised and majorly falsely manufactured anti-Semitism crisis within the British Labour Party is deployed in order to wholly undermine and deplete that same British Labour Party, thus enabling a certain reconfiguration of British and wider Western societies. Keir Starmer's own review (Forde Report) into his party's 'crisis' is buried and ignored amongst the Labour front bench, ably assisted by British MSM. A semi-covert Western coup of societal infrastructure further weakens already inadequate restraint upon an increasingly rogue Israeli state. A Middle Eastern conflagration, currently widening to incorporate several West Asian, North African and Middle-Eastern countries.
Ongoing International Arms Trade:
An international military arms economy that continues to fuel multiple international conflicts, including an ongoing Genocide in Palestine. An arms trade that has assisted and enabled several Western and US imposed regime changes, costing millions of international lives. British and US arms are currently enabling/assisting multiple international War Crimes and Genocide in Gaza and the West Bank. US and UK arms enabled carpet-bombing of Yemen. Victims fleeing resultant atrocities are treated as pariahs by nations arming the conflicts.
1989 Hillsborough FA Cup Semi-Final:
97 deaths and 766 injuries, several of which subsequently brought about premature deaths. A crowd-crush incident caused through inept police action. The incident and resultant inquest was lied about and to for years, via multiple false testimonies given by the pertinent police authorities. Further cover and misinformation was conducted via Kelvin MacKenzie and Rupert Murdoch's Sun 'newspaper.'
Ongoing undermining and otherwise degrading of the UK's political processes and accountability:
Quite a mouthful; the manner in which the cogs of pseudo-democracy often now turn counter-to-societal-benefit. The manner in which MPs who call out the liars are the ones being held to account. Lobbiests hold far greater sway over certain MPs than any weight of constituents. A perfect example would be PM Sunak's schoolboy reply to Zarah Sultana's urgent call for pressure to be put upon Israel to cease with its Genocide against Gaza. Following on, MP Andrew Percy first deploys a racist trope, then lies to parliament during his pseudo-retraction in which he diminishes and equates attempts to curtail Genocidal Intent as 'silliness.'

The above listed contenders spring readily to mind. They are but seven, likely seven amongst a great many more. Take your pick.

Other injustices are plentiful. It's contested that none of the available injustices is yet as 'great' as is that of the sub-postmasters. Arguably though, some may be equally unjust. If one factors in fuller international consequences and lives lost then one or two are so immense as to dwarf 'Mr Bates.' Other contenders include:
Orgreave (1984 miners strike):
We already know that newsreel footage of the miners confronting police was manipulated in order to present the miners as perpetrators of violence, instead of the police. In other Miners Strike confrontations many of those purporting to be police officers wore uniforms without identification markers. Thatcher's subsequent crushing of the UK Miners enabled widespread attack upon the wider British Union Movement and UK workers' rights. The resultant UK power base, away from working people, has 'better' enabled several of those injustices here listed.
Lawfare and Slapps (a legal system that embraces, seeks to exploit and to further inequality):
Lawfare has been used by various public figures as an assault upon the freedom of others to speak truth on certain political issues. The practice has been afforded due cover (of course) by MSM and has been exploited by employees of the BBC.
Carillion Public Sector contracts (2018):
Nearly seven billion pounds of debt accrued before liquidation, wreaking serious financial harm upon the Public Sector. Former CEOs Keith Cochrane and Philip Green CBE walk free when it is decided it is not in the 'public interest' to prosecute. The losses are recovered via UK Tax System- working people again foot the bill.
Unaccountable IT systems being woven into fabric of UK life:
Palantir [data analytics] operates in both NHS and [Genocidal] IDF). Fujitsu's Horizon System brought about the wrongful prosecutions of the sub-postmasters. Israel's Pegasus IT Systems has woven a web into the infrastructure of multiple other countries; a known list of covert and undemocratic uses to which the spyware has been used is immense, but then there's also the as-yet-unknown instances of use. In 2020 and 2021 the system was used to target staff at the head of UK politics, 10 Downing Street.
Media stranglehold (an incestuous and ongoing tight control of information):
Stranglehold on UK'S MSM is well documented, the small circle of controlling 'families' continues to tighten, BBC routinely now deploys a Spectator spokesperson (Katy Balls) or an IEA representative (funding unknown) in order to 'contextualise' news reports.
Gradual privatisation of all aspects of UK life and beyond (lobbiests hanging from the rafters at party conferences):
It is increasingly now recognised that many aspects of the UK's former public sector may now be damaged to the extent that disingenuous opposition MPs (also heavily lobbied) are semi-openly preparing to further privatised the remnants of what is left.
Unexpected deaths of 8,440 people, April 2019-October 2022, all of whom were, or had recently been, under the care of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS foundation Trust:
One of the latest injustices to come to light. Curious, another 'trust?'

If one has the mind to do so it is easily possible to find multiple connections between the UK's considerable list of major injustices, weaving something of a mycelium of interconnectedness. One might cite certain individuals or certain organisations, trusts or other groups. Some of these individuals and/or bodies may appear to have silently woven a pathway through many of the listed injustices, likely alongside others yet to be discovered. Rest assured that those who are not apprehended, challenged or otherwise curtailed will, thus emboldened, continue to offend. To cite, for example, the earlier Zarah Sultana- Sunak/Percy encounter: whatever one's politics it can be observed that only one Member of the House (Zarah Sultana) conducts herself in a manner befitting to democratic debate, whilst the other two, including the nation's current PM, conduct themselves in a manner more befitting of low level playground quips. Two of the three know they will get away with their falsehoods and have clearly given no consideration to the likelihood of being held to account.

'Mr Bates and the Post Office' is, perhaps, currently the 'greatest injustice' because several of the other ones have been covered up, significantly or in major part. Or else MSM has worked to downplay their significance; perhaps a spokesperson from the Spectator or IEA has 'contextualised' them 'for us?' If those injustices that have also spilled over into international territories are to be discounted then, maybe, 'Mr Bates' is a contender. But, is any appointed hierarchy, here on, always going to have to depend so very heavily upon the medium of TV drama in order to even wake the sleepy nation to the pertinent details? Such power in the hands of MSM! Maybe not quite the greatest but, even here, is there yet another national injustice lurking in the shadows?

Posted on the date of the ICJ's ruling upon Israeli War Crimes and Genocide upon Palestine.

What If?

'What if?'
It's a short question that's frequently being asked about all manner of things, from the trivial everyday white-noise, the societal minutiae, perhaps, right up to the national and international giants of the age. 'What if?'

What if we painted this wall burgundy and moved the table over to the window?
What if we moved the sound speakers over to that wall and pushed the sofa up against the opposite one?
What if we fled the Genocide and instead tried to join our cousins in the UK?
What if we had broccoli instead of sprouts with the Christmas dinner this year?
What if we attempted to pretend that the growing numbers of homeless people weren't really there and just carried on with an active program of steepling housing inequality?
What if I cut my hair really short and bleached it snowy white?
What if we replaced the Labour Opposition with a bunch of lobbiests who would continue with the same raft of neoliberal policies as the Tories?
What if the oceans rises another foot this decade?
What if we keep on burning oil until all the wells run dry?
What if the mega wealthy elites really don't much care which ills befall the rest of us?

'What if?' What if they really don't care?
Not about the rest of us, anyway?


It's a valid question. A mite over direct and to the point but then, for those who have been taking an interest, it's just one amongst many questions that are not being put to our (so called) democratically elected representatives. Or, should the odd pertinent question manage to squeak through the barricades, then it's one of the more pertinent questions that is not being answered. Not honestly, not with any due attention to detail or seriousness, evasively at best.

What if they really don't care?
What then?

Because- pause for thought- if 'they' really don't much care about the same sort of questions that are beginning to overwhelm the rest of the thinking minions then what? What sort of responses might we then expect from 'them?' Assuming that 'they' even deign to respond? What if 'they' really don't give a damn?


Who would know better than the oil baron, that fossil fuels really are to blame for the coming climate emergency; who would know better than those who have been covering up the evidence for the last fifty years, than those who are in the very best place to have properly accessed all of the available data? If they truly wanted to respond in a manner likely to benefit the majority and the planet they'd have done so long before now. If they were going to tackle the climate crisis they'd ensure that there were fewer lobbiests working hand-in-glove with government. Surely. And, if this is the situation, as absolutely it must be, what else is being allowed to slide?

Precisely how much research into the cancers being wrought, had tobacco baron, Philip Norris, done into the more harmful effects of smoking, decades before Priti Patel broke the Ministerial Code, lobbying for reduced regulations on tobacco sales? Well, that and for the misappropriation of international aid, into Israeli coffers? Ms Patel must be so very proud, in the unlikely event that she is ever given cause for reflection! Just how far ahead of that curve, were the tobacco barons? And, what about the gambling cartels; quite how many lobbiests for this blackened melanoma are still pretending that they serve their constituents?

Finger pointing might vary in intensity, or waver in terms of direction, yet the oft speculated opinion that our globe has become overpopulated with the human species seems never far from the surface. There are too many 'other' people out there, we are regularly reminded. The 'culprits' are either left vague, paley sketched in, or they are non-specifically elsewhere. Never quite precisely 'here!' Although, even the hereness of here bears considerable elasticity so, rather dependent upon precisely how much racism the messenger is currently being permitted. Whatever the wording, whoever the speaker, the surplus is never quite 'us!'

So, when Putin broke with global expectations in February 2022 and actually drove his tanks over the border, the puppet-masters in the US of A must have been beside themselves with joy! They'd poked and they'd poked at the Old Bear and, finally, he'd bitten! Jackpot!

The US of A went into overdrive, organising the severance of Europe's fuel supply, via Nordstream2. Cornering the replacement petro-chemical market. Good ol' US of A! The US arms trade needed no such help, being so well practised at enabling all manner of dubious regimes to unleash their wrath upon other human beings! Good ol' US of A!

So, the same glorious US of A must have been absolutely crestfallen when, in the spring of the same year (2022), Ukraine and Russia were upon the cusp of a peace deal, threatening to cut dead all those glorious arms sales! The US needed a veto and they needed one fast! The UK duly rolled over, almost as if someone-(or someones)-upon-high really didn't much care about the human cost! Other humans, the not-quite-us humans, the elsewhere ones.

There's the Western narrative and then there's an alternative narrative, one that generally comes without a US accent. One that doesn't require a US spokesperson's tale to be spun upon a BBCesque platform. One that fits more credibly with the manner in which events have befallen the globe.
'What if?' What if they really don't care,
we might more informedly muse.

In that clearer light, we move on. In that light, it would be reasonable to contemplate a world in which those with greatest monetary resources are able to garner the greater access to scientific research. Understand then, that, in light of such volumes of greater data coupled with this post's opening premise, access will not necessarily equate to more egalitarian thought or action. Resources, we are told, are limited. Yet, also we are expected to worship the concept of continual growth. Two contentions! They may feature within the very same news update, one may even follow hot on the heels of the other. And yet never are we encouraged to hold one in either hand and then together weight these juxtapositions. Further, neither does any from a selection of characters who would wish to be termed 'journalists' ever seem to make that small extra step. These being 'journalists' who would also have access to significantly greater quantities of the pertinent data than does the average citizen. Curious, maybe! Unless it hints at something far more weighty, far more concerning!

'What if?' What if they really don't care?

If those being routinely murdered by the IDF, in the globe's largest and most well-documented genocide, really are just numbers upon a far larger and covert tally then who's next? The floods, the fires, the rising oceans, will account for some of the non-specific excess populations and yet, if resources really are going to be so very unevenly distributed... well, as the US so loves to instruct,
'you do the math!'
Or rather, 'maths!'

Imagine, for a moment, that we find ourselves upon the greedier side of the divide. We might think to question from whence will the workforce be sourced? Diminishing resources may be marked up for those currently drowning in wealth but there will soon come the need for a change in pace, or trajectory, or valuation... or something...

They may not care, or they may well care for the wrong things and yet, sooner rather than later, even 'they' may find their elected pathway to be structurally compromised. Or blocked! Likely, they'll burn every bit as brightly as will we, should the flames catch in the wrong kinds of winds. Or drown just as readily. Or starve!

An increasingly bankrupted housing market cannot sustain an infinite number of pretended rethinks. When people cannot any longer afford housing what value then for the empty shells? A cost-of-living crisis may only sustain a limited number of rebrands; when costs are too much the black market thrives, citizens simply opt out from those aspects of the 'society' that has left them behind. The streets may only sustain a certain number of tents and sleeping bags, councils and disingenuous politicians may only sweep the canvass to another corner whilst there are corners still available, unless the puppeteers are already contemplating yet more sinister 'solutions' to their problems. Before it becomes clear to enough people that the system is broken, corrupted, bankrupt!
Searching for a more drastic solution!

This polyptych has a working title, 'When may we dig out the corpses of our dead children?'

'They really don't care! They really do not!
Not about us!

Even as we watch and we wonder, another poorly concealed lie has slipped its anchor. Another from the elite side of the tracks has bolted and handed back her CBE, hoping to stay ahead of the curve. Never mind that the correct narrative was freely available before the turn of the century. Watch as the conflagration spreads, watch the pertinent ministers and other miscreants dance their dances! They care no more but now they will need to work out which other ones to thrust into the flames that the flare will dazzle enough that we do not notice also the owner of the dispatching hand.

'They' really do not care!
They cannot. Even if they might once have (half) cared, or cared with certain reservations, neoliberal greed has now seriously impaired their vision. Greed has dazzled them!

War will certainly deplete some of those other-not-us-humans. That's why the arms trade is so very powerful! Wars! But, how to contain the spread? Kill just those other humans, the not-us-ones! Contain the spread! Hate the refugees, whilst creating new refugees! Hate the homeless, whilst creating more homelessness!

'They really don't care! They really do not!


'First they came for somebody else, who wasn't me, and I did not speak out-
Because I was not yet that somebody else...'