Harry's Place

So, now we know:

As the issue of my departure from the NS has now been picked up by Guido and Harry’s Place I should probably clarify my position on this matter.
Former owner Geoffrey Robinson saw fit to write a letter to the Times denying that the Prime Minister had a role in my departure [...]

Have a read of this, erm, fine talk delivered at the the UCU meeting “Legacy of Hope: Anti-Semitism, the Holocaust and Resistance Yesterday and Today.”
Kudos to Hirsh and Fine for participating in this conference: although it does have the flavour of the staged Jewish-Christian disputes of history. It is easy to recall the fate of [...]

Keith says:
“Keith Hammond”
Date: 30 January 2010 at 21:37
Hello Everyone,
I have just received an email from a sender outside of the list who quotes my last posting on Holocaust Memorial Day.
I have had this routine before.
I have saved the email and if I get one more I will make a formal complaint.  This is not an [...]

From Paul Anderson’s review of Michael Bérubé’s The Left at War in The Tribune.
Michael Bérubé, an academic who teaches literature and cultural studies at Penn State University, and is that rare thing in the United States, a self-confessed social democrat, hasn’t much to say about Obama except that he hopes for the best. But he [...]

There are an awful lot of oddballs and nutters at Ken Livingstone’s “Progressive London” conference.
But of all the sessions, here’s one which really leaps out.
THERE IS NO PROGRESSIVE IMPERIALISM
• Bairbre de Brún MEP, Sinn Féin
• Samuel Moncada, Venezuelan Ambassador
• Richard Gott, author
• Azad Ali, Community Affairs Co-ordinator, Islamic Forum Europe
• Mark Weisbrot, Co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy [...]

Depending on one’s point of view, the Iraqi resistance is still writing its name in the stars or slaughtering and maiming people by the score this week.
The BBC reports that this morning 17 people have been killed and more than 80 injured (with the death toll expected to rise) in another suicide bomb attack in [...]

This has appeared on the website of the Leeds branch of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign:

This is the text:
So What’s Wrong with Hating Zionists?
MPACUK. The Jewish Leadership Council (JLC) should really change its name to the Zionist Leadership Council. They’ve attacked the government for daring to have a dialogue with Britain’s biggest Muslim organisation. In an [...]

“The people here simply won’t vote for [Labour] Jim Fitzpatrick. If I don’t stand here, the Tories will defeat him,”said George Galloway yesterday on the BBC’s Politics Show – explaining why he’s seeking another term as MP and moving  from Bethnal Green & Bow to Poplar and Canning. You can watch the segment starting at 32:50 here [...]

Former Malaysian leader Mahathir Mohamad has bravely told the troof about 9/11 once again:
After watching a three-hour video of the attack on the World Trade Center buildings, Mohamad, had suggested earlier in his blog that the twin towers had collapsed “demolition style.”
Later on Friday, Mahathir also called on local television stations to show the three-hour [...]

Imagine this scenario.
A Tory Government wins an election. It appoints as a ‘community advisor’, a young man who spent a number of years active in Stop the Islamisation of Europe, of whose student wing he was ultimately president. He left that post a couple of years ago.
This young man has written and campaigned widely, [...]