Harry's Place

This is a guest post from Alex Stein of falsedichotomies.com
I almost went to Saturday’s Palestinian literary festival, as I was keen to hear Claire Messud, the author of the excellent The Emperor’s Children. In the end I went walking up north, spending Friday night in Kfar Kana, the village where Jesus reputedly turned water into [...]

It seems that Lee Barnes isn’t the only BNP blogger with interesting religious views. Take the blogger who goes by the name of ‘Red Squirrel‘, for example.

On her blog, in amongst all the usual BNP stuff (and links to sites including ‘Redwatch’*), you can also find this:

Don’t know much about Odinic curses and rituals involving [...]

The Guardian reports on yet another unacceptable use of the law to silence discussion on the internet:
Nadine Dorries, the Conservative frontbencher who claimed the Daily Telegraph’s revelations on expenses could drive MPs to suicide, has had her blog shut down by lawyers acting for the newspaper.
The virtually unprecedented action against a serving MP came after [...]

Splash in The Times today has Caroline Flint, minister for Europe, taking a swipe at Gordon Brown over his lack of even handedness in dealing with Hazel Blears. Flint has blatantly challenged his authority and good for her.
Flint says in The Times that Blears should not lose her job in any cabinet reshuffle as a [...]

This post follows on from a previous post of mine entitled Taking the BNP seriously: Simplistic condemnation is not enough and is cross-posted from Pro-British, Anti-Extremist.
An excellent dialogue on immigration between David Coleman, Professor of Demography at Oxford University, and the novelist Lionel Shriver can be read at Standpoint Online. Entitled ‘We Need to Talk [...]

Speaking about the news that a man in Somalian had his hand cut off for allegedly stealing $90 of clothes, Amnesty say:
Michelle Kagari, of Amnesty International’s Africa programme, said: “Punishments like these illustrate the extent to which violence still substitutes for the rule of law in many areas of Somalia.”
She said she wanted the [...]

A former South Korean President has jumped off a cliff, partly as a result of a corruption scandal:
Former South Korean president Roh Moo-Hyun, who was at the centre of a multi-million dollar corruption probe, has plunged to his death off a mountainside in an apparent suicide.
Police said they were investigating whether Roh, who was in [...]

The self-styled Muslim Association of Britain and Palestinian Solidarity Campaign have found a new cause: campaigning against ads for Israeli tourism in London.
Posters have recently appeared in London Underground tube stations advertising Israel as a tourist destination. The map on the advert depicts Israel as incorporating the West Bank and East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip [...]

Today, Morrissey reaches his half century.
 
So, here’s the very best of birthday wishes to the greatest living British anti-hero.

Guest post by Jon d
I’d been wondering why I’d not received any political bumf from any parties in the run up to the Euro election, not even the famous identity fraud leaflet. I was starting to feel I was being taken for granted by the parties; doesn’t my vote matter to them? Not even [...]