Monday, 25 July 2011

Gone In A Hari

Johann Hari has deleted his website. So, no more ignorant Pope-bashing and blaming of the Catholic Church for this, that and the other. But no more social democratic critique of this Blairite Coalition, either. And nothing more from a man who recanted his previous support for the Iraq War. Ah, there's the rub, and the explanation why this country's soi-disant voice of orthodox Catholicism is by all accounts still campaigning online for Hari to commit suicide.
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18 comments:

  1. Anonymous25 July 2011 at 11:28

    You are making yourself a party to the feud between two London scene queens. Leave them to each other, you are so much better than that.

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  2. Colin Whittaker25 July 2011 at 11:28

    It is something of a leap to conclude that the comments of Damian Thompson (aka, 'holysmoke' on twitter) have this intention.

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  3. David Lindsay25 July 2011 at 11:31

    Damian Thompson?

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  4. Anonymous25 July 2011 at 11:37

    But still no action against Kamm. Does nobody read your blog roll? They should, you know. They really should.

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  5. Colin Whittaker25 July 2011 at 11:58

    Anonymous you are very off-topic, Mr L. should have told you so by now.

    Articles on two sites from the political extremes (one trotskyist, the other sub-Buchananite) don't make a credible case against Oliver Kamm.

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  6. David Lindsay25 July 2011 at 11:59

    You mean articles by people who were right when Kamm was wrong. He is surrounded by Trots, so clearly he doesn't mind them.

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  7. Anonymous25 July 2011 at 12:00

    "Extremes" compared to what, the Iraq war?

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  8. David Lindsay25 July 2011 at 12:01

    Or the position of Anders Behring Breivik, an admirer of all the same people?

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  9. Paul25 July 2011 at 12:03

    I don't know. Hari's site has gone off and come back up at least twice before this past week. Besides, taking down his site isn't going to remove his articles from the web. All of them are easily found from the sites he published on. They're not all in one place, but a bit of effort and you have them.

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  10. Colin Whittaker25 July 2011 at 12:10

    "[Kamm] is surrounded by Trots."

    A list of names would be interesting.

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  11. David Lindsay25 July 2011 at 12:13

    But rather long.

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  12. Anonymous25 July 2011 at 12:18

    The Times and the Euston Manifesto Group are full of them, one of the Henry Jackson Society's patrons declares it openly on that website but probably not on Fox.

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  13. Anonymous25 July 2011 at 12:22

    Sooner a "sub-Buchananite" than a neocon mass murderer of teenagers who had dared hold a pro-Palestinian rally and support a party about to pull out of Libya.

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  14. David Lindsay25 July 2011 at 12:25

    They have been mass murdering teenagers for a long time, not excluding British ones sent to pointless deaths at the front in order to further their demented schemes. But note how such murders are suddenly a problem now that the victims are both Nordic and, unlike squaddies, middle-class.

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  15. Colin Whittaker25 July 2011 at 12:57

    Anonymous @ 12.22 you have a neocon fixation. Breivik was a nationalist, a personal quality not normally associated with neoconservatives.

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  16. David Lindsay25 July 2011 at 13:03

    He has been heavily influenced by the likes of Daniel Pipes and, via the EDL, he is tied into that whole world of Harry's Place, the Murdoch media, the American Enterprise Institute, the Henry Jackson Society, and so on, with a religion straight out of John Hagee, Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann and Tony Blair, and with the staggeringly racist party of Israel's Foreign Minister in the driving seat.

    It is no wonder that the neoconservative wars have been and are most enthusiastically promoted by media moguls who, far from being conservative figures, are somehow all and yet none of Australian, American and British, or somehow all and yet none of Canadian, American and British.

    Those media have been the prime movers in turning first New Labour and then also its imitators who have taken over the Conservative Party into what they most of Britain's supposedly conservative newspapers have long been, more loyal to the United States and to the State of Israel than to the United Kingdom, a position as unconservative and as far removed from Labourism as it is possible to imagine, and without parallel in any comparable country, if in any country at all.

    I do not deny that this is an incoherent position. But take that up with those who hold it.

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  17. Neuroskeptic25 July 2011 at 14:00

    He hasn't deleted his website - not exactly. It's been off and on for the past few days, sometimes it's accessible. I got onto it 5 minutes ago. However most of the old articles aren't there.

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  18. Anonymous27 July 2011 at 14:46

    Yet another Telegraph blog post on this today, the virtue of magnanimity is lost on Her Hole-iness.

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