Harry's Place

When he was in opposition, David Cameron promised action against hate preachers. In 2008, for example, he laid into Yusuf al Qaradawi, the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, and Ibrahim Moussawi, Hezbollah’s media man.
“It’s clear for reasons of our security that we must expel or refuse entry to those who preach [...]

Associated Press
JERUSALEM — Israeli naval commandos stormed a flotilla of ships carrying aid and hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists to the blockaded Gaza Strip on Monday, killing at least 10 passengers in a predawn raid that sets off worldwide condemnation and a diplomatic crisis. Israel said the forces encountered unexpected resistance as they boarded the vessels. [...]

One thing that is true about the Trotskyists is that they never supported Britain and America’s war effort against Nazi Germany. While the Allies were fighting against Nazi tyranny, the Trotskyists were calling for workers in Britain to strike. The effect of this was to hamper the war effort. It is therefore no surprise that [...]

Nick Cohen in Standpoint:
Among the many failures of political journalists in this election — and we got pretty much everything about it wrong right up to the last minute when we were predicting a small Conservative majority — was the failure to understand the Liberal Democrats. Before Nick Clegg stormed the first leaders’ debate, lobby [...]

From the Guardian ‘Weekend’ supplement letters page:
I will leave it to others to decide if Christopher Hitchens is himself “stupid, cowardly, naive”, but he is certainly “too lazy to have bothered updating his political facilities” since the invasion of Iraq, and is now as discredited as his fellow moral giants Rumsfeld and Cheney. Also, if [...]

The BBC is reporting that David Laws has resigned as Chief Secretary to the Treasury after admitting he claimed £40,000 of expenses to pay rent to his partner. That was fast, I really did not see him going. I thought he would ride it out.
He quite deserved to go. He is a millionaire banker who [...]

Yes it’s that time again. Bulgarians with wings, and 83 year old Armenians playing the flute next to a giant apricot stone. There will be women whose main ambition in life is to look like Cheryl Cole and Men who think Timmy Mallett was the height of aspiration and sexiness. In addition there will (as [...]

There’s more trouble brewing for the Con-Dems. Simon Hughes, who looks like he will easily win the deputy leadership race after Vince Cable stepped down, wants Lib Dems to take on shadow roles as part of efforts to ensure that the party retains its identity.
The Guardian reports that he has put forward plans for the [...]

Tony Greenstein is proud of his anti-Zionist credentials. He also claims to be a socialist and claims to be an anti-racist.
Sussex Front was a publication produced by the far-right and racist National Front. In 1983, Sussex Front reviewed one of Greenstein’s publications. I copy an extract from that review below.

Book Review
Philip Drax
Sussex Front, January 1983, [...]

Oh dear.