Harry's Place

Cross-posted from Ash C. at HonourMission
Last year we saw the first viable challenge in a generation to the dominance of the far left over race politics in the UK. Credible black thinkers like Dr Tony Sewell and Katharine Birbalsingh openly questioned the effectiveness of an ideological model that for nearly 40 years has cast BME [...]

According to the Times Higher Education:
Over half of current final-year students would not have gone to university if they had faced tuition fees of £9,000 a year, according to a new study.
However this is a good thing.
The fact of the matter is that the majority of people are not smart enough for university [...]

Cross-posted from Eric Lee at Trade Unions Linking Israel and Palestine
On 24 June 2011 from 11 AM to 1 PM, TULIP will hold a London launch event in Committee Room 7 at the House of Commons in London.
The keynote speaker will be Michael Sommer, president of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and of the [...]

Cross-posted from Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi at Hudson New York
Eight years after American forces toppled Saddam Hussein’s regime on April 9, 2011, Shi’ite cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr’s followers held a demonstration in Baghdad to commemorate the end of the Baathist government and to demand an end to the presence of U.S. troops in Iraq. Some protesters waved [...]

Wikileaks could be in danger of becoming wikipointingoutthebleedingobvious, but there is some new news about the Tipton Three:
Three of the men, dubbed the “Tipton Taliban”, spent two years in the US camps in Cuba after they were captured in 2002 on suspicion of being part of al-Qaeda.
The men maintain that they had set off from [...]

Guest post by DaveM
After pledging reforms and ending the state of emergency, Bashar went back to doing what the Assads do best– killing Syrians. So he ordered an intensification of crackdown on people who are demanding the freedoms you and I take for granted.
The reported death toll stands at 350, but the actual figure could [...]

Chavez has backed Assad. Is he doing it for laughs now?

Gay couples want the right to marry too
Supporters of the Equal Love campaign presented a giant wedding card for Prince William and Kate Middleton outside the gates of Buckingham Palace yesterday, Monday 25 April.
As well as wishing the royal couple “congratulations” and “a happy life together”, the campaigners highlighted the ban on gay civil marriage [...]

This is a cross-post from falsedichotomies.com
As an Israeli, Gideon Levy is the ultimate useful idiot for those whose life mission is the destruction of the mighty Zionist enterprise. In his weekly ‘Twilight Zone’ article, he reports on a different aspect of the occupation’s evils. Although he’s often lax with his journalistic standards in these pieces, [...]

This event, ‘a panel discussion examining Israeli Criminality in the wake of the Goldstone Retract’, is to be held at the University of Westminster on 3 May.  As Mira Vogel reports over on Greens Engage, it is being promoted by Stormfront (link to cached page) and also by at least one local branch of the [...]