Harry's Place

American based right-wing, journalist/blogger Andrew Sullivan, who once voted for himself as the world’s most influential blogger, is going up in the world but shows no signs of losing his famed modesty.
Today he cutely links to an article at Tech Central Station on how conservatives are winning America’s ‘culture wars’ which contains the following line:
“Several [...]

Clare Short, ex-international development secretary, has been thinking about the European Union and comes up with some interesting conclusions.
In the article entitled We must stop the drive towards a superstate she observes
Tony Blair is driven more by posture than consideration of the crucial details of proposed EU powers.
and
Mr Brown has rightly started to argue that [...]

Norman Geras links to a disturbing and depressing piece in The Guardian by an Egyptian journalist who recently visited the West Bank. It reminds us once again of the routine humiliations and hardships suffered by people trying to go about their daily lives in the midst of Israel’s severe and somtimes arbitrary security measures. Like [...]

Jackie D has set up a blog about food called The Daily Bread which looks worth checking out if you are looking for recipe ideas.
I’m not sure what her friend Nigella will make of one of the headlines though. And what is it about Americans and pumpkins?

George Monbiot is back on the Iraq issue in the Guardian today and arguing about the ‘moral case for war’.
Monbiot is right to point out the opportunistic way in which leaders have started to talk as if this was the only reason they went to war when of course they presented the case as being [...]

I’ve decided to vote Communist at the next election. To see why just look at the CPGB’s plans for reforming chokey as set out in their draft programme
Prisoners must be allowed the maximum opportunity to develop themselves as human beings. People should only be imprisoned within a short distance of their own locality - if [...]

Theodore Dalrymple responds to the latest proposed crackdown on public smoking in his usual style.

A few months ago I linked to a Washington Post report on employees of Sterling Laundry in Washington, DC, who were trying- in the face of fierce resistance by the company- to organize a union.
Since then those workers have gone on strike and they remain on strike. Those who think the struggle for basic labor [...]

Last week I linked to an article setting out the main points of the Bush doctrine.
I think one of the defining elements of the new American mindset is exasperation with multilateral bodies like the United Nations and the International Atomic Energy Agency. I say I ‘think’ because I don’t know for sure. It may [...]

I’m reading Labour MP Peter Kilfoyle’s book Left Behind - Lessons from Labour’s Heartlands which I picked up for a few quid in one of the bargain bookshops the other week in London.
Kilfoyle was the man charged by the Labour Party NEC of cleaning the entryist Trotskyite sect, the Militant tendency, out of the Labour [...]