Harry's Place

One of the many irritatations of the US ‘blogosphere’ (as opposed to our own little UK/European bloghamlet) is the tendency to blog about blogging. I like reading US blogs that have something fresh to say about the news or politics but I press the back button as soon as I see an article about how [...]

This article from Lebanon’s Daily Star speaks for itself.

The British Medical Association want a total ban on smoking smoking in public. They include offices, factories, pubs and restaurants in their definition of public spaces and cite as support for their proposed measure the fact that 17000 children small children are hospitalised every year as a result of passive smoking.
A large-scale Californian survey, the [...]

The Scottish Socialist Party have a campaign to provide free school dinners for all children in the state education system. They state that a poor diet kills people prematurely. I won’t argue with that statement.
I do have a problem with extending free school meals from those who presently receive them (the children of the poor [...]

Seeing as oil is the natural resource du jour I thought these findings by Christian Aid might be of interest to readers. Christian Aid note that the discovery of oil in a third world country isn’t neccessarily a good thing for the people of the country in which it’s found for the simple reason that [...]

We are faced here with a political, moral, and intellectual collapse of the old left, and with the cumulative result that the “left” no longer knows quite what its own identity is. How and why has this happened?
Isn’t it that much of the left, or more accurately the pseudo-left, no longer defines itself positively, in [...]

Rosie Kane, newly-elected Trotskyist member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow and Geri Halliwellalike has stated in her acceptance speech that she hoped “parliament is going to become a bit like the Big Brother House, and people are going to watch it to see what’s happening…they’re going to be amazed at all the madness [...]

Are American newspapers really so dull that people feel the need to pay webloggers to keep them entertained?
According to Andrew Sullivan, 4,500 people have given him cash as thanks for him exposing the communist conspiracy at the BBC and getting indignant at liberals the world over. Now he is trying to tempt his readers into [...]

“The world is living through a series of never-ending and incredibly quick changes. Shouting ‘peace, peace’ at a time when there is war around us, is like going to a hospital and shouting ‘health! health!’ “ Giovanni Lindo Ferretti, Italian communist and punk rock singer explaining why he refused to provide a song for [...]

“The bourgeoisie may not be ready at this point to resort to “pogroms” or “civil war” in Britain, but there are lesser weapons of a similar type in its arsenal. Hence the Galloway witch-hunt, straight out of the McCarthyite stable” Weekly Worker, May 8, 2025