Harry's Place

Now and then I check the stats for this weblog to see how many people are reading and, more interestingly, how on earth they found out about it. The vast majority of traffic is generated by other blogs linking here but in second place is of course the search engine - overwhelmingly Google.
It can be [...]

I really should have recommended Jackie’s weblog Au Currant weeks ago - after all I am a regular reader and she frequently pops up in the comment boxes here and kindly links to items she finds of interest. Jackie is an American living in the UK and she doesn’t like being pigeonholed so I’ll [...]

Now this really is a test of whether you still belong to the good old British old left:
Chris Binding in the Guardian reports enthusiastically about a political/cultural event called ‘Left Field’.
Groups of like-minded people gathering to drink beer and debate the great issues of the day are nothing new. Since the earliest days, dreamers, radicals [...]

For those of you who have been used to Harry’s Place being a one man operation and were startled by my initial post I should introduce myself.
Like Harry my political roots are in the left though this does not stop me from despairing at the recent sheep-like state of thinking on the left which I [...]

As someone who could, until earlier this year, have been persuaded either way about the legitimacy and desirability of the recent Iraq war I decided to explore the “tests for a just war ” which certain anti-war protestors raised before the war actually began. George Monbiot, the apocalyptic Guardian columnist, listed the conditions he would [...]

How did it take so long for this point to be made about Dalyell’s recent comments?
As it happens, George Bush’s cabinet is the first in decades not to include a single Jewish member. The result is that those bent on sniffing out Jewish influence have to go to the second, third and fourth rungs [...]

The East German ‘people’s car’ might have a future yet.

What better way to brighten up a blog than to bring in a new blogger? You’ll meet him here soon and I hope you find his comments and reading suggestions to be stimulating.
I think it is fairer to let him do his own introduction, suffice to say that the new voice on Harry’s Place is [...]

Chris Bertram asks what pro-war lefties like myself have to say about the lack of WMD’s found yet in Iraq. I’m late in responding to his question but in short my reply is this - it is simply too soon to say they don’t exist. I broadly agree with the comments Stephen Pollard makes to [...]

George Galloway has been suspended from the Labour Party. He was believed to be the king of hearts on Tony Blair’s playing card collection of rebel MP’s.
Anyone know what Tam Dalyell’s ranking is?