More Aliases Than Brain Cells

Well Freedom is something Robinson/Lennon/Harris won't be experiencing freedom for a little while (photo from Hope Not Hate)

 Whether he is called Tommy Robinson or Stephen Yaxley-Lennon or PaulHarris or whatever, this man has more aliases than brain cells

The leader of the English Defence League has just been jailed for 10 months for using someone else's passport to travel to the USA. Lennon/Robinson/Harris/?, 30, from Luton, admitted possession of a false identity document with improper intention. He used a passport in the name of Andrew McMaster to board a Virgin Atlantic flight from Heathrow to New York, Southwark Crown Court was told.

Lennon et al had previously been refused entry to the US and used a friend's passport to travel to the country in September. He used a self check-in kiosk to board the flight at Heathrow and was allowed through when the document was checked in the bag-drop area.

But when Lennon arrived at New York's JFK Airport, customs officials took his fingerprints and realised he was not travelling on his own passport. Lennon was asked to attend a second interview but managed to leave the airport. He stayed one night and travelled back to the UK the following day using his own legitimate passport, which bears the name of Paul Harris.

In mitigation, Lennon's barrister Giles Cockings told the court the passport was not stolen and his client had only used it for a day.

Robinson/Lennon/Harris/?  is clearly an arsehole. The most obviously funny aspect of the case is that  a racist anti imigration thug was caught as an illegal entrant himself!

Pathetic little rick gets two years for efacing Rothko pinting

Wlodzimierz Umaniec, also known as Vladimir Umanets who vandalised one of Tate's  collection of Rothko paintings   has been jailed for two years.

According to the  Guardian Umanets, a 26-year-old Polish national who lives in Worthing, West Sussex, pleaded guilty at a previous hearing to criminal damage in excess of £5,000. In this case it was well in excess, with estimates suggesting it will cost more than £200,000 and 20 months to restore.

Judge Roger Chapple, at Inner London crown court, said it was "abundantly clear" that Umaniec was "plainly an intelligent man" who regarded Rothko as a "great painter".

The incident happened at around 3.25pm on 7 October this year, when Umaniec approached one of Rothko's Seagram murals, Black on Maroon, took out a brush and some black paint and wrote his name along with 'A Potential Piece of Yellowism' in the corner of the work.

He later claimed it was an artistic act, comparing himself to Marcel Duchamp, whose appropriation of a urinal in 1917 led to him being regarded as the father of conceptual art. Umaniec had told the BBC: "Art allows us to take what someone's done and put a new message on it."


Rothko's Seagram murals, originally planned for the Four Seasons restaurant in New York, were a gift to the Tate by the artist in 1969 and are regarded as some of Tate Modern's most important works.
The court heard that Umaniec went to the gallery intending to put his "signature" on a picture, but decided to damage the Rothko painting only at the time he saw it on display.


The restoration will be long and difficult, not least because Rothko often used unusual materials, including eggs and glue, to create his works.


Two years is a long time but Umanets is a sad littleprick who isn't fit to lick the boots of an artist like Rothko.  Perhas he can treat his prison time as a for mof closed erformance art. Not sure if there is any yellow in his prison gear.