Steve Cohen A nice obituary for Steve Cohen (to add to the ones I linked to here) from Ionnek at Indymedia London (currently the lead item on the front page, which is gratifying), which includes a bibliography of some of his writings. Just good blogging My two favourite blog posts of the week: the F...

Two significant BNP election results in greater Southeast London last week. In St Mary's in Swanley, the BNP gained a councillor, despite an incompetent campaign. I know St Mary's fairly well, and I think this interesting article in the Indy over-plays the importance of race in the election. For me,...

In Rome, the Pope welcomes ultra-conservative Catholics back into the fold, including British Holocaust denier Richard Williamson, who last week told Swedish TV “There were no gas chambers.� Peter Risdon (profiled here) usefully draws out the continuities between today's British elite antisemiti...

I haven't been too closely following the twittering over the leaking of the BNP's membership list. The meme that seems to have emerged in the mainstream press: that the leak may have been a victory for the BNP, because it shows the membership to be a cross-section of society - "people like you and m...

Imagine this. May – June 2008 Four Molotov cocktails are thrown into a Jewish neighborhood in Italy . Two days later, assailants burn down another Jewish neighborhood causing approximately 800 residents to flee. Crowds of people are seen cheering live on the main national TV channel RAI yelling: J...

Martin recently had a post on hating the London Review of Books , and then having one's faith restored. As a subscriber, I know exactly how he feels. You have the overwhelming sense of this cliquey in-group of wealthy North London bobos reviewing each other's books, feeling smug about their cultural...

University College London has sensibly withdrawn a researcher’s fellowship after he published an article claiming that the gas chambers of Auschwitz never existed. Nicholas Kollerstrom posted the article, 'The Auschwitz “Gas Chamber� Illusion', on the website of the revisionist Committee for O...

Part of Thursday's election in London will be for Greater London Assembly members. Although the Mayoral race - the Ken and Boris show - has dominated coverage, the Assembly elections are also of some interest. The Assembly elections has a part which is about one's local representative, for constitue...

Jonah Goldberg: The genocide loophole (Los Angeles Times) Extract: "Last week, Russia's lower house of parliament passed a resolution insisting that Josef Stalin's man-made 1932-33 famine -- called the Holodomor in Ukrainian -- wasn't genocide. Virtually no one, including the Russians, disputes that...

Jeff W: If there were any remaining doubts that Norman Finkelstein 's visceral and obsessive hatred of Israel (along with his clearly deep-seated psychological problems) have left him thoroughly unhinged, this illuminating recent interview on Lebanese TV (via MEMRI) should be enough to dispel such d...