Harry's Place

The ordinary anti-war protestor says it is unfair to tar them all by the same brush as their Leninist leaders. Most of the protestors were not Leninist supporters of a one-party state. Fair enough, but why did we hear so little dissent from within the movement? If they really believed the movement could make an [...]

The Independent has now followed The Times and decided to charge for access to a large part of its online content including, sadly, opinion items. You can debate the rights and wrongs of this as a commercial strategy but I think this is a great shame in terms of global discourse.
The internet, helped by weblogs, [...]

There was a time when the comments boxes on this blog were an occasionally interesting forum for debate and discussion. However lately it is clear that one or two wreckers have been using it as a form of graffiti. I’m not at all bothered by the infantile personal comments, I get far worse in my [...]

“In the late seventies, Workers Revolutionary Party photographers took pictures of demonstrators outside the Iraqi embassy in London and then passed the photographs on to its paymasters sitting inside the building. The consequences could have been tantamount to a death sentence. This must rank as one of the worst atrocities ever committed by an ostensibly [...]

“Iraqi information minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf’s briefings of the international media have attracted attention for their informative and often cogent content, in contrast to the contradictions of the coalition spokespersons, who have had to field numerous questions regarding the misinformation they were spinning the day before.”
From the Weekly Worker

START PRINTING THE TEE-SHIRTS
If you didn’t see it you can read the Galloway interview with Sky News in full here.
Quote: “I have strong support across the country. I speak, and my friends speak, for millions of British people”.
Shouldn’t somebody set up a welovegeorgegalloway.com website?

If anyone is the man to deliver the blows to finish off the defenders of dictators on the left then it is Johann Hari of the Independent. As so often he hits the target more accurately than a gobful of Wayne Rooney’s flem. “I’d rather it was money than belief that made George Galloway support [...]

Spin is back with a superb Kinnockesque rallying call for a war on the anti-American left:
It starts from opposing American foolishness and bad policy, and ends up with the spectacle of a Labour MP, a Labour MP, scuttling from dictator to torturer, handing out compliments and support to corrupt regimes and oppresive neo-fascists.
I want to [...]

I’ll maybe post something on the wider implications of the allegations made against Galloway later on but central to the whole affair of his behaviour in general, rather than specific allegation made by the Telegraph, is the charity/campaigning group the Mariam Appeal. So I’ve done a bit of googling to see what can be found [...]

George Galloway, the anti-war Labour backbencher, received money from Saddam Hussein’s regime for his campaigns, taking a slice of oil earnings worth at least £375,000 a year, according to Iraqi intelligence documents found by The Daily Telegraph in Baghdad. Story here
The slogan “No war - for oil” seems to come to mind. But if this [...]