Harry’s Place

Dear Reader,
I will get to the “but” presently. Indulge me for a few paragraphs…
The growing popularity of blogging and so-called “citizen journalism” was once seen as a challenge to the traditional media. As news sources, blogs could sometimes dramatically scoop print and broadcast media, but I don’t think any serious media commentator honestly ever thought […]

Democrats: who did you want to win the nomination?
Certainly, Hilary was far from flawless. Dynastic politics has an unhealthy whiff to it. But I had no doubt that she’d prove a capable and shrewd President. By contrast, there’s a rather appealing fairytale quality to the rise of Obama. Yet, as the campaign progressed, the Wright […]

CiFWatcher, over at the Telegraph blog site, says that CiF has introduced a pre-moderation policy:
CIF has a longstanding problem with antisemitism posted there. … The pattern is that the Editors commission an article from one of their stable of one-sided anti-Israel commentators in the full knowledge that it will open the floodgates to antisemitic comments […]

The Wikio Blog Ranking for this month has us at number 3 in their list of “the most influential blogs in the UK blogosphere” (based, as far as I can tell, on incoming links).
The top two are Iain Dale  and Samizdata.  So that means that we are the top Left wing blog in the country. For […]

Guest post by modernity
Ken Livingstone was in the City Hall public gallery today watching Boris Johnson’s performance in front of the GLA. Livingstone has a stronger stomach than me.
I’ve given up on watching Boris.
I acquired the BorisJohnsonWatch blog in a fit of activity, I thought it was a good idea at the time, that’s my […]

OK, Sunny is a mate. Yet I have to confess: I find this exchange with Andrew Anthony utterly delicious.
Anthony has written a piece on the Undercover Mosque libel settlement:
Back in August 2007 I wrote a defence of the Undercover Mosque programme and, among many reasonable responses, I came in for the now obligatory charges of […]

David T adds: Ha! That’s the last time I believe anything I read on the so-called Ministry of “Truth” blog!
Well, that’s a slight exaggeration. Paul Staines - the Tory blogger who runs Guido Fawkes - has just been sentenced to three months in prison curfew, for drink driving.
I like Paul. He wrote a lovely pamphlet […]

Endorsed by Amnesty International  and sponsored by blogging directory BlogCatalog, is an initiative to publicise the fact that our planet - 60 years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - still suffers from a multitude of human rights issues.
Bloggers Unite is an initiative designed to harness the power of the blogosphere to make the world a […]

Among American teenagers, at least, it may not be what you think.
At The New Republic’s Plank blog, Michelle Cottle quotes from a study by the Pew Internet and American Life project:
Teens living in households earning less than $50,000 per year are considerably more likely to blog than those living in higher-income households; fully 35% of […]

Meet “Professor” Joseph Chikelue Obi: “Alternative Medicine Strongman”, “Eminent Black British Human Rights Crusader” “Undisputed Doyen of Medical Politics”, “Royal College of Alternative Medicine Boss”, FRCAM (Dublin), FRIPH (UK), FACAM (USA), MICR (UK).

“Professor” Obi’s RCAM claims that it is able to offer “improvement in the quality of life of cancer sufferers and HIV/AIDS hosts” through […]