Harry's Place

The Guardian is very coy:
A senior Palestinian official today said he has asked the US, Britain and France to help bring three of their nationals for questioning about the huge leak of confidential documents relating to peace talks in the Middle East.
Chief negotiator Saeb Erekat said the three include a former British intelligence officer, a US employee [...]

On the evening of February  8, 2011, at the Strand Campus of King’s College London, part of the University of London, Raimond Gaita, Professor of Moral Philosophy at King’s College London and Foundation Professor of Philosophy at Australian Catholic University, will be speaking on the subject: “Is the Pope Catholic?”  As the advertising literature states: [...]

The Evening Standard reports:
Ken Livingstone today stepped down from his lucrative role fronting a programme on Iranian state TV.
The London mayoral candidate will stop presenting Epilogue, his monthly book review show, on the English-language Press TV channel from March.
The move came as it was reported that NatWest bank has frozen the channel’s British trading account [...]

School-children in Colchester, Conneticut have won a local award for making a Lego model of local eatery, Harry’s Place.
Feel free to project onto this whatever obsessions you have about HP or the politics it covers.
Hat-tip: Graham.
Gene adds: And here’s the real, existing Harry’s Place in Colchester.

If you haven’t been following Abu Faris’s fascinating first-hand reports from Cairo in this thread, by all mean do so.
Reading some of the other comments in the thread, and some of the commentary elsewhere, I’m reminded of what the late great A.J. Liebling wrote (circa 1961):
There are three kinds of writers of news in our [...]

A Ugandan gay campaigner, Brenda Namigadde, who was studying in the UK applied for asylum after events in her country turned very, very bad. Firstly, a bill was introduced in the Ugandan parliament to increase punishments for homosexuality and to impose the death penalty in certain cases. Secondly, the a vicious press campaign started in [...]

The moral and financial bankrupt, Lauren Booth, breaks the news:
Last month, suddenly and without any warning, the National Westminster Bank, Commercial Banking office, froze Press TV Ltd’s business account.
By ‘froze’, I mean it sealed off the main trading account for the production company, in which lies more the 100,000 pounds sterling. This money is now [...]

An Ipos-Mori poll out today gives Labour a 10 point lead. The poll for Reuters has the Tories sinking to33% (-5) as Labour pulls ahead to 43% (+4).
Bizarrely the Liberal Democrats have pulled back a little from their recent low, which saw the party fall to between 10 and 11% around the time of the [...]

Perhaps the most encouraging thing I’ve read about the uprising against the autocratic and sclerotic Mubarak government in Egypt is that, as Avi Issacharoff reports in Haaretz, “[t]he demonstrations are currently being led by leftist democratic groups like Al Wafd, Al ‘Ad and supporters of [former International Atomic Energy Agency director Muhammad] ElBaradei.”
There is no [...]

David Rose has a six thousand word article on Vanity Fair about a bunch of glorified local councillors’ failure to appreciate both who is in a position to offer compassion for what and when they have been stitched-up like a kipper by highly effective gobshites.
Fifteen months after the balance of probabilities dictated that he would [...]