Comments on Aaronovitch Watch: Just a Jack-Knife Has MacHeath, Dear

Are we still watching Anthony? His latest review ...

2008-07-21T07:22:00.000Z

Are we still watching Anthony? His latest review in the Observer contains the gem:

... Thomas drily noted that for all the tendency to denounce external enemies, more Muslims have been killed by fellow Muslims than ever died at the hand of Christians and Jews.

... as if more Christians have not been killed by other Christians than ever died at the hands of Muslims.

And this Sunday Nick proves that Banksy is literal...

2008-07-20T20:25:00.000Z

And this Sunday Nick proves that Banksy is literally stealing money out of the mouths of the poor and hiding it in a scecret offshore account, along with his radical-chic accomplice Vivienne Westwood - when will the madness of the liberal-lefts tyranny end !

Thanks Anon, duly noted. You've dented my faith in...

2008-07-16T17:01:00.000Z

Thanks Anon, duly noted. You've dented my faith in Wikipedia and the Intertrons as the source of the all wise - I suppose it had to happen.

As for the Harry's Place thing. See David T at 16 July 2008, 11:43 am.
David Edgar, as you well know slyly accused Nick Cohen of racism. [snip] Are you Nick Edgar?

Reply (6 minutes later):

are you David Cohen?

HP is almost beyond parody today on the Lebanon bu...

2008-07-16T16:59:00.000Z

HP is almost beyond parody today on the Lebanon business. All the moral outrage over a releasing a man who killed a man and a child when he was 16, and has since served 28 years in prison, from individuals who were so vociferous in their support for a pointless war two years ago in which hundreds of women and children were targeted and killed, and a million cluster bombs left behind.

Oh Lordie.the liberal press, Liberal Democrats, a ...

2008-07-16T14:55:00.000Z

Oh Lordie.

the liberal press, Liberal Democrats, a section of the Labour Party, the Met, the West Midlands Police, the BBC, a part of the Civil Service, the Crown Prosecution Service, the Lord Chief Justice and His Grace, the Archbishop of Canterbury

...they're all the bloody same!

Seal of Mel?

The Muslim Brotherhood is a subtle and skilled

Wasn't Bertoldt Brecht a Communist?

2008-07-16T11:52:00.000Z
Wasn't Bertoldt Brecht a Communist?

http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/07/16/swap-shop/m...

2008-07-16T11:26:00.000Z
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/07/16/swap-shop/

mainly they seem to simply not understand the concept of the swaps.

OT, but is there any word from the League for True...

2008-07-16T10:56:00.000Z
OT, but is there any word from the League for True Decency condemning Israel's swap with Hezbollah today? After all, their whole justification for the assault on Lebanon 2 years ago was that you couldn't possibly negotiate with these terrorists and it was far better to have a big, you know, kind of thingy that would really shake things up. So surely Brownie, Brett Lock et al should be lining up

Harry's place are printing what the observer won't...

2008-07-16T10:18:00.000Z
Harry's place are printing what the observer won't - and nick is becoming less and less readable (try to get your head round the first sentence/paragraph):

http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/07/16/nick-cohen-demos-and-islamexpo/

A number of prison vistation programmes for juveni...

2008-07-16T07:54:00.000Z
A number of prison vistation programmes for juvenile criminals have been conducted in the US under the 'Scared Straight!' rubric. A systematic review conducted for the Cochrane Library (link) concluded: "not only does [the Scared Straight programme] fail to deter crime, but it

John, I largely agree with you, but I think the po...

2008-07-16T05:35:00.000Z
John, I largely agree with you, but I think the point of newspapers is to tell me stuff I don't know. Aaro's quite capable of writing an article considering the answers to any one of those questions, and his column would be much better if he had.

This is an area which has been studied in great depth. It's interesting to sociologists and anthropologists because it approaches issues like

"What he does in my opinion is ask a lot of rhetor...

2008-07-15T22:52:00.000Z
"What he does in my opinion is ask a lot of rhetorical questions which are blindingly obvious to anyone who has ever read a book on criminology or sociology or economics for that matter."

...which is still better than the ill-informed crap from rightwing commentators (and Neil Clark) about how knife crime is T3h Ev1lz, broken society, etc, etc, featuring no sign of any knowledge

..... and supporters of a certain invasion should ...

2008-07-15T21:35:00.000Z
..... and supporters of a certain invasion should be forced to mop the floors in Basra Central A&E for a week.