Comments on Aaronovitch Watch: A Plea to Readers

are comments now disabled on nick's articles on th...

2008-06-08T18:30:00.000Z

are comments now disabled on nick's articles on the guardian website? looks that way. so much for a commitment to open source.

If I have time, I have the, er, insider knowledge as well as sufficient annoyance to write a commentary on this latest one...

the main point being that it makes no sense. he spends ages bemoaning the fundamentally stupid idea in the RAE, where

I loved the way Jon Stewart did the big AIPAC shin...

2008-06-07T21:04:00.000Z

I loved the way Jon Stewart did the big AIPAC shindig on the Daily Show.

Obama: When I was in Israel in 2006...

Stewart: Not bad, a personal visit.

Clinton: I've been going to Israel since 1982...

Stewart: Ha! He's only been once! She's practically in the Mile Chai Club!

McCain: I was recently in Jerusalem with Senator Lieberman...

Stewart:

Ah yes Tom, its interesting to note how HP can dis...

2008-06-07T15:48:00.000Z

Ah yes Tom, its interesting to note how HP can discuss the Obama speech whilst at the same time maintaining that the Pro-Israel Lobby is not particularly powerful. The enormity of the fact that the two Presidential candidates have to make their partisanship so transparent, in an election year, doesn't appear to register.

I have always thought the justification trotted out at HP that you

Well, Obama's now given his big pandering speech a...

2008-06-06T13:30:00.000Z

Well, Obama's now given his big pandering speech at AIPAC, so the HP types have temporarily forgotten that he's a secret Muslim who intends to cede America to the Caliphate.

Yes, that always used to amuse me, seeing as throu...

2008-06-06T11:42:00.000Z

Yes, that always used to amuse me, seeing as throughout the 15th February 2003 demo I was stuck with a gaggle of Iraqi communists, despite having snuck into the Lord Moon on the Mall and out again. It really was such an obsessive trope to deny that anyone like that had been there, at all, on that demo, and one that was so easily debunked by photographic evidence.

Thanks for the explanation.they occasionally attem...

2008-06-06T08:47:00.000Z

Thanks for the explanation.
they occasionally attempted to imply some sort of connection with the Iraqi CP
and now they publish guest posts by Paul "are you now or have you ever been" Bogdanor!
K

"What was it? a woman protesting, with banner some...

2008-06-05T18:27:00.000Z

"What was it? a woman protesting, with banner somewhere around? was she wearing a headscarf? "
It was a member of the Iraqi Communist Party celebrating Saddam's downfall. When HP still wanted to maintain a toe in the camp of the traditional left, they occasionally attempted to imply some sort of connection with the Iraqi CP, utterly dishonestly since the party was opposed to the US invasion

the new Harry’s Place: a smarter appearance, more ...

2008-06-05T09:18:00.000Z

the new Harry’s Place: a smarter appearance, more pluralist, trying for a broader constituency.

the problem is that not only do the same people run it (witness the increasingly bonkers-looking David T), but all the old reader-commenters have come with them, which means that the comments sections are still even worse than those on CiF.

The photo on the previous site had a flavour of ol...

2008-06-05T09:05:00.000Z

The photo on the previous site had a flavour of old leftism. What was it? a woman protesting, with banner somewhere around? was she wearing a headscarf? I never quite understood that either, but the image had a flavour of activism and action. The new images, changed every week or so, seem to be ‘what’s in the news just now’. Pretty bland, and without any single meaning -- with almost no meaning,