Mightier than the sword

Deploying the press letter for truth and freedom

- RICHARD HOUSE

IT'S all too easy to feel helpless in the face of unfolding global(ist) events and power plays.

Yet there exists a multitude of different ways in which we can push back to help the world wake up to the truth of what is happening. Here, I want to highlight just one modest approach, that if enough of us were to pursue it, could have a significant impact. I'm referring to press letters, submitted to local, regional and national newspaper letters pages.

I'm certainly not suggesting that truthers waste time and energy writing to captured corporate nationals (although I have recently managed to get several counternarrative letters into the Metro), which rarely if ever print anything challenging the mainstream lockstep narrative. But local and regional newspapers are often a different matter; they are often far more prepared to publish counternarrative letters from readers - no doubt in part because it suits them to publish controversy-generating material that gets local readers fired up and eyeballs for advertisers.

Here in Stroud, Gloucestershire, we have several local and regional papers which have consistently been prepared to print letters that robustly challenge the mainstream narrative about the covid 'pandemic' and the jab. Appended to this article are some excerpts from several examples that I've had published in our Stroud News and Journal (circulation around 25,000). I had my first press letter published in the Western Gazette in 1975, and I've had many hundreds published since, including open letters. I organised with Sue Palmer on 'toxic childhood' that went viral in 2006, 2007 and 2011; and also scores of letters in the national and local press supporting Jeremy Corbyn's leadership between 2016 and 2019.