Ahmedinejad misquoted
Comment is free: Lost in translation Jonathan Steele on how the president of Iran's notorious "wipe off the map" speech did not in fact contain the offending words at all: The New York Times's...
Category: Politics
Crazies march today; real demo this Sunday
The family of the two men arrested in the raid a week ago are urging Muslims not to take part in a march organised by "al-Ghurabaa", an off-shoot of al-Muhajiroun, according to this report...
2001 riots “fuelled by racist propaganda”
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Report says riots product of racist propaganda The Burnley race riots of 2001 were fuelled by racists exploiting the perceived imbalances in council spending on different communities, according...
Always helping police with their enquiries
Pickled Politics: Deport BNP council tax cheats! Pickled Politics reproduces a report from last week by Andrew Gilligan from the Evening Standard on the latest scandal involving the British National Party's notoriously incompetent, criminal...
What Muslims have done for Holland
Feargus O'Sullivan, in yesterday's Guardian, wrote about the various "anti-delicacies" he tasted on his travels in Europe. This is what he found in the Netherlands: The quintessential Dutch food experience is the FEBO snack...
Francis Maude in Emel magazine
Francis Maude, chairman of the Conservative Party, has a column in the latest edition of emel magazine (June 2006, issue 21, not online yet but available in Borders), entitled A Party for All People. The article discusses at length the party’s recent drive to recruit more female and ethnic minority candidates, including Muslims.
Yellow star lie debunked
In case anyone came in having recently read Melanie Phillips' diary where the writer has still not bothered to delete or amend her most recent entry which repeats a false report from the Canadian...
Far right tries to kick off in Austria
From A Fistful of Euros, a report on how Austria's interior minister used media reports and an academic study whose author has yet to draw his conclusions as the basis for accusing Austria's Muslim...
Why I detest all this anti-rights rhetoric
Last week Umar Lee blogged a piece about “child terrorists” who rampage in the streets of New York every day of the school year. The young thugs get out of school and terrorise the...
Jane Campbell on Lord Joffe and euthanasia
Guardian Unlimited: Stop trying to kill us off In today's Guardian, Jane Campbell, who has Spinal Muscular Atrophy, uses a wheelchair and uses help from personal assistants provided by the local authority, attacks Lord...
Nick Cohen: communalism and the BNP
Nick Cohen has an article in today's Observer (which can also be found at his blog and at Comment is Free; the Observer's website is inaccessible to me at the moment) attempting to explain...
How the BNP tried to butter up Evangelicals
Guardian Unlimited: God is the God of all Dr Giles Fraser (vicar of Putney and Oxford philosophy lecturer) on how the BNP tried to build up an alliance with evangelical Christians, but balked at...
Monbiot on junk food and crime
Guardian Unlimited: Tough on crime, to hell with the causes of crime if they make money George Monbiot on the evidence of the links between a “junk food and TV” diet and crime, and...
The vast left-wing conspiracy
Something I'd been meaning to blog on as part of my "Melanie Phillips soundbite of the week" series, now that she's started blogging again, but Stuart Jeffries in today's Guardian has pretty much beaten...
Same old Nazis …
The Guardian today has a feature on the British National Party and its threat to appeal to working-class white voters disillusioned by Labour (and with their heads filled with exaggerated stories about asylum seekers)....
BNP shamelessly lying in anti-immigration campaign
The Independent today had a major feature on the practice of the British National Party of lying about immigration in order to scare working-class white voters in east London into voting for them. Most...
Guardian’s future history on Iran bombing
Timothy Garton Ash has what is in many ways a rather tendentious future history on "what happened" after President Hillary Clinton bombed Iran's nuclear facilities in 2009, having won an election by demonstrating that...
“Every word in it is a lie”
DD Guttenplan, on the Guardian's Comments blog, takes apart the recently-published Euston Manifesto, exposing the alliance behind it – liberal advocates for Israel including the Engage mob and what he calls the "laptop bombardiers"...
Hattersley: defence of PC
British Labour politician Roy Hattersley on why "political correctness" is actually essential to a civilised society, however much the media hate it: Justified though the rebuke was, political correctness is more than the need...
Ethnic candidate causes BNP outrage
[The Guardian reports](http://politics.guardian.co.uk/farright/story/0,,1749555,00.html) on today’s front page that the decision to choose an “ethnic” – a supposed descendent of an Armenian refugee with the unlikely name of Sharif Abdul-Gawad – has caused outrage among...