Harry's Place

What is it with the far left and doomed legal actions?
One of Tommy Sheridan’s old comrades has just lost a case against the Daily Record which had published an unpleasant remark of his that she was a “political scab”.
Not very nice admittedly, but I’m sure she’s been called worse in the febrile and incestuous world of Caledonian [...]

This is a cross-post from Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens

The Quilliam Foundation has announced a report on the UK’s Islam Channel. Quilliam co-director, Maajid Nawaz, has sent around a text message publicising the release, claiming that the channel is a portal for ‘extremism, bias, sexism, sectarianism and attacks on mainstream Muslim practices.’ In response, the Islam [...]

“We’re not paying the poll tax,
We’re not paying the poll tax,
Nah, nah, nah, nah!
Nah, nah, nah, nah!”
Repeat ad nauseam.
In a few days time it will be the twentieth anniversary of this event:

Bloody battle of Trafalgar
Richard Caseby, Maurice Chittenden, Frances Rafferty and Tim Rayment
The Sunday Times, April 1, 1990, Sunday
GANGS of rioters and looters were rampaging [...]

The Times is to start charging for access to its online journalism from June:
News International, the newspapers’ parent company, announced that readers will be offered a day’s use for £1, or £2 for a week’s subscription
Well I suppose you can’t get something for nothing forever.
I suspect I’ll be forced to shell out for a weekly [...]

This is a guest post by Bwana
Mohammed Ali Harrath, the CEO of the Islam Channel, was on Hardtalk last night defending his network from the allegations made against it by Quilliam in their latest report, ‘Reprogramming British Muslims: A Study of the Islam Channel’.  It really is a remarkable interview, in which Harrath dodges questions [...]

UPDATE
Plus Confused Hassids v Lady Gaga (via Ami and the JC)

… and this (via Seismic Shock)

(This scene was shot on Yom Kippur)

Nick Cohen writes in Standpoint:
There are no frontier posts on the Left of politics, no pale to go beyond. You can move further and further away from the centre, move so far, in fact, that you turn the circle and join the fascists and it still doesn’t matter. Whatever you do, your “leftist” credentials will [...]

This is a guest-post from Hope Not Hate
The clock is ticking.
In just six short weeks we will head to the polls. When that day in May comes, will you be able to say you did all you could to stop the BNP from winning power?
The threat is real. Both nationally and locally the BNP are [...]

Pope must resign over cover up of child sex abuse
Protest against the Pope’s protection of paedophile priests
The Protest the Pope campaign invites you to join us for our first demonstration against the Pope’s State Visit to the UK. Our demo this Sunday will accuse the Pope of covering up child sex abuse by [...]

This is a report from Muslim World News (MWN)
Several reports provide details about the ‘Al-Aqsa in danger’ gala which took place on Sunday (21/3/2010), organised by the Palestinian Forum in Britain (PFB) and ‘Islamic centres’ in London .* Remarkably, the gala took place at the London Central Mosque (Regent’s Park). Senior [...]