Harry's Place

New research claims that No living creature is now safe from the cameras.
Do have fun discussing Animal Rights, the Surveillance society, or ethics in general, but let’s try and keep one thread free of the election if at all possible.

From an editorial:
Citizens have votes. Newspapers do not. However, if the Guardian had a vote in the 2010 general election it would be cast enthusiastically for the Liberal Democrats.
…They are less tied to reactionary and sectional class interests than either of the other parties.
The interests of the poor and working class as represented, however spottily, [...]

We posted Thursday about Tehran’s police chief threatening to arrest suntanned women (deemed to be violating the spirit of Islamic laws), along with a report that the government of Iran was seeking a position on an international women’s rights body.
Sure enough, buried in a United Nations press release is the news that Iran was one [...]

The BBC governing body recently apologised for a joke told by Frankie Boyle two years ago made on Radio 4. A listener complained that the joke was anti-semitic. The joke was:
‘I’ve been studying Israeli Army Martial Arts. I now know 16 ways to kick a Palestinian woman in the back. People think that the Middle [...]

This is a cross-post from the CST blog
Last month this blog published some research looking at the antisemitic rhetoric and anti-Jewish targeting of the Pakistani terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which carried out the Mumbai terrorist attacks in November 2008. The post included examples of threats to Jews and Hindus by Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, the head [...]

What is the difference between thugs in the Palestinian “solidarity” movement and the EDL?

On Wednesday evening Israel’s deputy ambassador spoke at Manchester University. As the Jewish Chronicle reports, this is what happened when she tried to leave:
Speaking about Wednesday’s protest she said: “It was quite a shocking experience. I have had [...]

Writing at Dissent’s Arguing the World blog, Alan Johnson (professor of democratic theory and practice at Edge Hill University in Lancashire) says what seems to me, as a non-Brit, some sensible things about “Bigotgate” and “the fraying of the relationship between the Labour Party and the working class.”

This is a cross-post from Paul Anderson
I was thinking of not bothering to reply to the City University Islamic Society’s riposte to me and Rosie Waterhouse (see below) because I thought I’d already made all the substantive points I wanted to make about the ISoc – and its diatribe was beyond parody.
Private Eye’s Dave Spart [...]

Cross-posted from Judeosphere
Hugo Chavez is continuing with his plans to convene a Fifth Socialist International in Venezuela. (World Utopia, here we come!)
The Chavezistas inform us that Caracas is the ideal venue for this event, “due to the role that Venezuela is playing as the epicenter of the great transformations that have occurred since the beginning [...]

Comments are open for opinions on tonight’s debate, the last of three ahead of the May 6 election, among the leaders of Britain’s three main political parties.

Keep it civil, OK?