Harry's Place

This is a guest post by Carl Miller of Demos
Mystery shrouds of the death of Gareth Williams, the SIS/GCHQ code-breaker found dead at his central London apartment. One of the few certainties emerging from this tragic and sinister incident is that it will join Diana, Colonel Gaddafi and David Kelly in the pantheon of [...]

Recently, former BNP Legal Director Lee Barnes summed the BNP up as follows:
The party is internally schizophrenic.
It is comprised on one hand of hard core Nazi’s on one wing and on the other Civic Nationalists.
Both sides despise each other.
Interestingly, we now have this from Griffin:
Civic nationalism is actually a Marxist mentality which starts at the [...]

After the ridiculous calls for cultural boycotts from the likes of Iain Banks and others, and the constant harassment of musicians seeking to play music in Israel, isn’t this the way forward? Boney M in Ramallah?
In recent months the West Bank has turned into one giant performance and culture center. One of the major attractions [...]

Anyone heard of LCD Soundsystem?  I had not, until they were mentioned on the Jethro Tull Fans Facebook page by the same screaming-at-mice brigade who tried and failed to force Ian Anderson to cancel the Israeli leg of Tull’s tour.
Their Facebook page is here.  Currently, they are still intending to perform in Tel Aviv on [...]

Quite regularly when I read something, I learn something new. On occasion I suspect that the author is mistaken in facts or in interpretation of facts. But there are those special times when I wonder what kind of drugs the author took to write such mumbo-jumbo. Today, I am lost for words. Darren Redstar has [...]

This is a cross-post from Joseph Weissman

In January 2010, Christopher Hitchens (whom I admire politically, and deeply wish a full and speedy recovery from throat cancer) wrote an article in Slate about Western Christians and the Haiti earthquake.
Hitchens introduced his piece with a comment about the Lisbon Earthquake of 1755, and the dawn of the [...]

THIS IS A CROSS-POST FROM A RABBIT’S EYE-VIEW OF THE HYPERBOREAN NORTH.

A member of the National League for Democracy uses a laptop with an image of Aung San Suu Kyi at NLD’s head office in Rangoon. (Photo: Reuters)

The cards are stacked against the pro-democracy movement in Burma ahead of the General Election on 7 November [...]

This is a cross post from Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens at Standpoint
For the past week I have been in New York, and on Tuesday took the afternoon to visit Ground Zero and Park51, the site of the Cordoba Initiative’s proposed Islamic centre.

The Park51 site
As I pressed the timer on my watch in order to [...]

The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) strongly backs the repeated harassment of Ahava, an Israeli cosmetics store in Covent Garden. The next round of intimidation will begin tomorrow at noon. It follows an attack on the shop on Wednesday night, when red paint was thrown at its windows.
Here is a desperate and ugly smear [...]