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The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has the news:
After months of anticipation and almost two years after his arrest and imprisonment, blogger Hossein Derakhshan was sentenced to 19.5 years in prison by Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Courts today. News of the stiff sentence was first published by Mashreq website. A source close [...]

Guest post by Oscar Sherman
The website of Socialist Worker, the mouthpiece of the philo-Islamist SWP and a self-identified “revolutionary anti-capitalist paper in Britain”, currently sports an article calling for the abolition of the police.
Socialist Worker refers to the police as “an arm of the state used for oppressing the working class” and claims the police [...]

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

Most fathers give their sons a toy gun. Kim Jong-il, the North Korean ruler has made his youngest son, Kim Jong-eun a four-star General in the Korean People’s Army. This occurred at the first full Workers Party Congress in 30 years where, without the [...]

Another scoop from Ted Jeory, who links to Rahman’s new campaign video, and notices an interesting guest appearance, 44 seconds in:

It is Lutfur Ali, a mate of Lutfur Rahman, who was appointed assistant Chief Executive of Tower Hamlets in circumstances which resulted in more than one raised eyebrow. Lutfur Ali then had to resign, when [...]

Yesterday, Ted Jeory and this website reported that a RESPECT National Council member Abul “Abs” Hussain has engaged in some pretty explicit antisemitic abuse on his Facebook page.

Hussain used the term “Jew” as abuse, suggested bartering a “Jew” with Israel in return for aid to Gaza, and made a racist joke which implied that Jews are [...]

The hate preacher, Zakir Naik, who was banned from the United Kingdom, is applying to court to have his ban overturned.
As part of their case, they have disclosed a good deal of private correspondence, between the civil servant Charles Farr and Naik’s team. Here’s the story, in The Telegraph:
However papers lodged as part of Dr [...]

This is a guest post by mostyn
Friends of Al Aqsa are a nasty organisation. Their head, Ismail Patel, has an unfortunate habit of quoting convicted Holocaust Deniers – both in his lectures and in Friends of Al Aqsa publications.
Friends of Al Aqsa campaigns for boycotts of Israel and and all things Zionist. This includes, for [...]

This is a cross post by MoreMediaNonsense
Ed Milliband has won the Labour leadership with a majority of the union/affiliate votes but no majority amongst party members and MP’s. Personally I think he’s likely to be a disaster and one of the reasons will be the perception he’s the unions’ man and won in a skewed [...]

Via ConservativeHome, I’ve become aware of a Mail on Sunday article entitled ‘What do you think made you become a heterosexual? Just one of the bizarre questions council chiefs are asking staff on “diversity” course’.
The article begins:

Town Hall bosses are asking staff to take part in a ‘heterosexuality quiz’ so [...]

This is a cross post from Nothing British About the BNP
On the 26th August 2010 the Charities Commission authorised Soldiers off the Street (charity number: 1137594) to become an official charity.  According to SOTS’ website, it claims to help homeless veterans by providing them with “clothing, food and rehabilitation, including advice on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, [...]