Harry's Place

I mentioned yesterday how Andrew Sullivan is trying to exploit Iranian bloggers for his own agenda and now Eric Alterman responds to Sullivan’s demands that everyone blog about Iran all the time or else stand guilty of supporting theocracy.
It is really an amazing assertion when you think about it. Not only does Andy think he [...]

For all the warts on British television, a year in America taught me just how lucky we are to have not just the BBC but also a range of diversely funded channels with different layers of public service ambitions and obligations. The lesson from America is that, if news and public affairs are left purely [...]

A series of interviews with GI’s in the Evening Standard which is extremely disturbing on a number of levels:
“We’re more angry at the generals who are making these decisions and who never hit the ground, and who don’t get shot at or have to look at the bloody bodies and the burnt-out bodies, and the [...]

In Britain MP’s become talk show hosts but in the land of the free, of course, it works the other way round.
Trash talk show host Jerry Springer is considering a run for Senate and he has done an interview with this weblog.
“I’d like to ask all those Senators who always talk about cutting programs [...]

I have been browsing some of the weblog reaction to the BBC programme on attitudes to the USA the other day and the results of their poll and once again the blogosphere manages to create a world of its own.
I can’t be bothered linking to all the sites but they are the usual suspects [...]

Former journalist Andrew Sullivan offers this item on his blog today: THE LEFT AND IRAN: Pejman takes on the moral abdication of the Western left.
But click on the link to the item and you find a perfectly reasonable article urging the media to pay more attention to the situation in Iran. There is not a [...]

Johann Hari appeals for greater support for the Iranian students and rightly criticises those on the left who are reluctant to back the democrats for fear of being on the same side as George Bush.
In response Chris Bertram thinks many western leftists may well be more interested in George Bush but doubts they are [...]

It seems likely that I will be shortly introducing a talented political cartoonist to the blog, something which I suspect would be a first, certainly for a British weblog. Now the problem is that I have this talented chap offering his services but I have no way to post images here. I think I need [...]

Not content with banning smoking and criminalising beer drinking for 20-year-olds, American bureaucrats now want to ban lap dancing.
Do we want a society where we’re so controlled that we cannot do anything at all? Do we want a society where people can’t go out and enjoy themselves?,” said Roger Diamond, a lawyer representing about 25 [...]

Tony Blair must be really wishing he was president of the USA now - according to a new poll one third of Americans think we actually have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.