“who thinks that we at Socialist Unity would block Oliver Kamm.”

I am sure in this instance you might well let him post, but given the rather variable nature of SU blog’s moderation policy (some stuff is allowed, others not, bits deleted depending on the moods of the admin ) then I can’t see why he’d bother.

as an avid reader of SU blog (I don’t post there), I think the fickle nature of comments deletion there is a shame, it is not as bad as it was before, I suspect people got bored and went elsewhere

but don’t get me wrong I do find some of the articles at SU blog very interesting, the trade union and anti-fascist stuff, etc is informative

I thought Andy Newman’s THE HAZARD OF DUKE was very good, a bit of a shame that some socialists needed the racist nature of Duke’s web site spelling out for them, in such detail, when it should have been bleeding obvious

However, I do wish they’d fix the design, it is out of date and makes navigating tiresome, the Recent Comments section needs expanding, along Recent Posts, as the posts roll up too quickly and there is a tendency to miss some

I am not the moderator, and as I have pointed out am extremely reluctant to censor any post, but I can assure him/her that Mr Kamm is more than welcome to post to any thread that he wishes. And that goes for anyone at HP and elsewhere. I am not afraid of reasoned debate and commentary.

To my knowledge, the only stuff that has ever been censored is racist commentary (some of which was pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic, as well as some stuff about me), something I myself would allow and have asked not to be censored. My line has not only been for freedom of hate speech (something very different to inciting violence) and allowing bigots enough rope to hang themselves.

However, SU’s policy is clear on this matter, though I disagree with it. As far as I am aware, Mr Kamm therefore has no need to worry on that front.

I suspect he never will grace the SU blog: he knows almost all his arguments will fall apart at the most cursory inspection – a far worse fate for a major commentator than being seen to be crazy.

You would.

Kamm = a dumb bag of shit

Mike = an arse licker of a dumb bag of shit

Oliver Kamm – outstanding political instincts and historical judgment

Although Hitchens is a writer that I think has some interesting things to say and I respect, I have never trusted him fully since his hatchet jobs on Clinton and the betrayal of Clinton’s top, excellent political adviser, Sidney Blumenthal. Hitchens has moved on greatly from the 90s but I have never fully forgiven him for this. The man is a contrarian by nature, which means he has all sort of dodgy positions.

Oliver Kamm, however, is one of the few writers in this world I agree with 99.9999% of the time. I think the man is a genious.