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Interesting reminder of the close friendship between Martin Smith and Gilad Atzmon, the notorious proponent of rabidly anti-semitic world Jewish conspiracy theories. During Smith’s leadership of the party Atzmon, a jazz musician, often did gigs for the party or its front organisations. Readers of the article below will note Atzmon’s aggressively sexist and anti-feminist [...]

A detailed account in the Guardian’s Northerner Blog of a Galloway ’sermon’ to Muslim women in Bradford.
Galloway used the meeting as an attempt to rebuild his support among Muslim women, following his appalling comments about rape. It seems Muslim women, like most women and must people in general weren’t particularly impressed by G.G’s view [...]

THIS IS A GUEST POST BY THE SHADE OF MALCOLM CALDWELL

As I float through the gently undulating stems of the Asphodel Meadows, it is undeniably challenging to compose this message. I am fortunate, however, to have encountered computers and other data storage devices before my demise so can be channeled through one.
My fellow shade, [...]

Hat-tip: DaveM and inspired by Flaming Fairy
Or we could talk about grammar.
Alan A adds:
What is strange about this tweet is that The Guardian has published Robin Yassin Kassab on a number of occasions.
Why is he saying that there’d be some difficulty in getting this piece into The Guardian? He is, after all, the former Middle [...]

[*] Hat-tip: DaveM.
[**] Tm. Flaming Fairy.

Unsurprising news via Labour Uncut:
Most people will have seen this photo of Ken Livingstone, overcome by emotion, crying at the screening of his election broadcast.
At the time the explanation given to reporters was that Ken was moved by the genuine words of Londoners and the responsibility he felt to win the election for them.
Stirring stuff. [...]

… threat to international security.
Today comes the exciting claim that Damon Albarn intends to stage a musical about the life and death of Osama Bin Laden. And, unlike Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom or Josef Tura and his acting troupe, there would no intended subversive joke.
This would not be the most barking mad production [...]

Thus Spake Lee Barnes:
Twitter.
The word says it all really doesnt it.
Twitter – twit, twat etc etc
But come on lets be honest what does it say about the person that likes using the twitter on his phone ( the twitoris ? ) and who does the twitting ( The twittee ? ) [...]

Two items.
First of all, Gilad Atzmon appeared this week at Exeter University – where else? – to promote his racist book. He was met by a picket of young anti-racists.
It goes without saying that Atzmon employed his customary bullying and blustering style against one of the women protesting against him. She replies, calling him a [...]