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In an ecumenical spirit, I am forwarding a request for guest posts from Tony Collins:
There are a few ground rules. 1) We have our red lines. This site is absolutely, unwaveringly anti-imperialist and anti-Islamophobia. Please don’t write saying we need to defeat “terror” or whatever the propaganda word of the month is. And don’t put [...]

Here Bob from Brockley links to some self-deprecating ‘what they say about me’ quotes on histomatist’s blog. – and adds a few of his own, some good, some bad.  Are there any choice descriptions of themselves HP readers would like to share?  Approving ones if you like – although insulting ones will probably be more [...]

A few hours ago I posed a simple question on Twitter:
Who originally coined the phrase, “Beer and sandwiches at number 10″?
I added that “I would appreciate a reliable source reference.”
This was picked up by @citizen_sane and @JohnRentoul. The latter found researching the question interesting and proceeded to write a blog post on the subject.  It [...]

An observation on another thread that the comments on Harry’s Place seemed more ‘personal’ than those on Liberal Conspiracy has prompted me to think about the effects that the blogging – and particularly the commenting – physical interface can have on the tone of the discussions.
The front page of Lib Con is quite busy – [...]

by Joseph W
The Tom MacMaster debacle has sparked a debate about online identity, which the BBC has picked up on. It has been revealed this week, that not only Tom MacMaster was faking a blog identity as the pretend-lesbian “Amina Arraf”, but also that “Paula Brooks” was actually Bill Graber – another straight American white man.
In this post [...]

Ben White famously “understands” why some people are antisemitic.
This is fortuitous for a man who spreads hatred of Israel with the likes of Azzam Tamimi.
Palestinian academic Azzam Tamimi, who has advocated suicide bombing, has told students he “longs to be a martyr” and that Israel “must come to an end”.
…
At SOAS, he praised Hamas [...]

Some time back, if you typed “The Coolest Picture On The Internet” into Google, it would give you this picture. Which was undoubtedly cool.

Today, Politics Home shares with us a similar twinning.
Not quite as cool.

The cartoon by @BECKintl that David Schneider declared sums up his life:

Hat Tip
A Retweet by John Rentoul.

This weekend, the News of the World’s political editor, Euan McColm,  called for Socialist Unity to be closed down by the police:
Andy Newman, boss of Ultra-left website Socialist Unity has been doing his best to stir up hatred against those who gave evidence against Sheridan. He’s publishing veiled threats against them on his site, cops should [...]

Readers of Harry’s Place will be familiar with the work of Lowkey: an Anglo-Iraqi rapper who spreads racist and troofer conspiracy theories. Here is one of his pieces:
One day I was running from the truth,
To speed me up they gave me these shoes,
So tie my feet with Nike’s,
Tell me lies about the 11th of September
By “lies” [...]