On the ‘doxxing’ of J.K. Rowling
Last Friday comedian Holly Stars, actor Georgia Frost and drag king Richard Energy staged a small-scale demonstration outside the Edinburgh…
Author: bobpitt (page 4)
New wave of disciplinary action against Labour members: A rightwing campaign to purge the left
A fortnight ago I finally got a letter from the Complaints Team in the Labour Party’s Governance and Legal Unit…
John Pilger’s fantasy history of Afghanistan
Last week the veteran leftwing journalist John Pilger published an article titled “Afghanistan, The Great Game of Smashing Countries”, which…
Cable Street, the Left and antisemitism
The Jewish Labour Movement’s trade union officer Miriam Mirwitch published a blog post on the Jewish News site last week,…
Lies and hysteria over ‘gender segregation’
When Universities UK published its guidelines on External Speakers in Higher Education Institutions last month it can hardly have anticipated…
How the Henry Jackson Society promotes anti-Muslim bigotry
Media coverage of the police figures for so-called “honour” crimes in the UK, revealed by the Iranian and Kurdish Women’s…
Muslim demographics, rabid Islamophobia and The Commentator
The Islamophobic myth that Muslims are engaged in the gradual but inexorable conquest of the West takes different forms, depending…
Nick Cohen speaks at anti-Islam festival where former EDL leader is guest of honour
Lars Hedegaard accepts award for ‘Silent Conquest’ (left) and Nick Cohen with Firoozeh Bazrafkan (right) Nick Cohen recently treated us…
John Ware – a record of tabloid-style smears and witch-hunts
“The Mayor and Our Money”, the Panorama documentary on Lutfur Rahman’s administration in Tower Hamlets that was broadcast this evening…
Boris Johnson and his hero from Jaws
One interesting feature of Dominic Cummings’ account of Boris Johnson’s reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic last year was his revelation…