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While I make no claim to having been responsible, Harry's Place is having one of its tantrums about the existence and popularity of Russia Today, which is now beaten only by the BBC and Sky as this country's preferred source of broadcast news, and which is only watched by a far more politically engaged section of the population than might automatically tune in to either of those.

The self-styled "decent Left" of Harry's Place would presumably prefer that we preferred the EDL-endorsing Fox "News", which is mercifully not available on Freeview, and which ought not to be broadcast in this country at all after it interfered from abroad in order to endorse a domestic terrorist organisation in the United Kingdom. But Ofcom doesn't want to know. I've tried.

It gives me no pleasure that Nick Griffin is "a parliamentarian". But, although mercifully not for much longer, he is. He has been on Newsnight several times and on Question Time once, which is more than most British parliamentarians can dream of.

Harry's Place is still smarting over Syria, and it probably always will be. Moreover, it takes the standard neocon view - well, of course it does, on any subject - in favour of European federalism within and under an American hegemony in the service of the secular Israeli Far Right, whether or not anyone in Israel votes for the secular Far Right.

It is therefore, like neocons in general, in no position to call anyone else a Fascist, whether in Dewsbury or in Damascus. Like neocons in general, Harry's Place rejoices that we are permanently subject to the legislative will of foreign Fascists, even if not for very much longer to that of British ones. Like neocons in general, Harry's Place rejoices that specifically Israeli Fascists should indirectly, but firmly, dictate the very life and death of our military and sometimes other personnel, even when they have no such say over those of their own State.

It is also quite clear from Harry's Place that it believes that it, and the extremely narrow sociopolitical base for which it serves as a noticeboard (a base within which the unquestionable Supreme Leader is Oliver Kamm, who is regarded as the sole arbiter even of the English language itself), should have the definitive say, like a less open-minded version of the Iranian Council of Guardians. Over who and what may or may not be published in any medium. Over what may or may not be taught in any educational institution, and by whom. Over who and what may or may not contest any election to anything.

Fascism. Plain and simple Fascism. Technically so called.