Harry's Place

On his weblog Gauche Tribune columnist Paul Anderson is debating Stephen Marks about the anti-war movement.
I have exchanged views with Stephen in the past on the Red Pepper mailing list and he is likable and intelligent socialist whose views are always well worth listening to. We fell out over Iraq of course and it [...]

The blogosphere has created quite a vocabulary of its own, with the verb to fisk being one of the best known additions to the language.
So here is my own contribution to this expanding dictionary - bloggocks def: the uttering of pretentious, self-deluding, self-promoting, hype and exaggeration about the power and influence of online journals, eg: [...]

Those libertarian chaps from Samizdata have launched a new weblog entitled White Rose - a protest site about the supposed erosion of privacy and personal freedom.
The main thrust so far appears to be opposition to identity cards. This is natural territory for the libertarians as they oppose almost anything which would help the authorities be [...]

Remember the fuss over the Guardian story reporting Paul Wolfowitz’s ‘admission’ that the war was all about oil after all? Remember how the Guardian withdrew the story and apologised for the misquote?
I’m sure you do, after all the matter was well covered in many blogs and referred to in other newspapers.
But somehow the Independent didn’t [...]

The Guardian reported on Saturday that George Orwell gave the British government a list of 38 suspected or actual communist sympathisers.
It never looks good when individuals who provide the state with lists of names and such activity raises a whole host of moral questions but quite why there should be such a fuss about this [...]

So here it is. Thanks to the kind help of those of technical bent who assisted in the switch over and a few late nights tinkering with style sheets and the new user-friendly home of Harry’s Place is up and running and hosted by bloghouse.
I have put a few technical notes below for any readers [...]

One of the main reasons for changing over to MT is the additional user-friendly features.
For those new to MT sites (not many of you I know) the main addition is the search engine which allows you to keyword search the archives of Harry’s Place - much more use than trawling through the monthly archives.
Also the [...]

You know it makes sense.

The Jackboot of puritanism has reached our shores.

I am told a few people thought I was joking when I said I got spam from a company dealing in septic tanks. Well, they are back again and I have traced them to their website. Drop by and say hello to them. “Simply the Most Effective Septic Maintenance Product Available!”
I do hope I’ll [...]