David Lindsay (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
On Newsnight , they have never heard the term "flogging a dead horse". Nor did it occur to them that if Denis MacShane cared so much about "the honour of British politics", then he should have been called upon to withdraw his signature both from the Euston Manifesto (unrepentant old Stalinists and Trotskyists) and from the Henry Jackson Society (unrepentant old cheerleaders for...
Thoughts (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
I found this article on the New Statesman website today, written on Friday: http://www.newstatesman.com/2009/11/holocuast-memorial-easyjet-magazine. It's about how easyjet's inflight magazine published some photos of a fashion shoot taken in the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin. The photos have now been withdrawn. I don't think I'd go as far as Denis MacShane MP, when he argued that, "This is further...
GayandRight (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Talk about bad taste... The November issue of easyJet In-flight contained two pictures of models posing at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, also known as the Field of Stelae. The memorial is Germany's most prominent monument to the six million Jews killed in the Nazi genocide. The pictures accompanied a feature marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall. Denis MacShane,...
Lancaster Unity (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Berlin's Field of Stelae Holocaust Memorial which commemorates the six million Jewish victims of Nazi genocide EasyJet yesterday withdrew all copies of its in-flight magazine after it published pictures of designer-clad models posing in Berlin's Field of Stelae Holocaust Memorial which commemorates the six million Jewish victims of Nazi genocide. After Jewish campaigners accused the airline of 'trivialising...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Listening to Justin Webb stuttering himself into silence on Today yesterday morning was a reminder of how poorly trained London-based journalists are on how Europe works. Webb was a master of Capitol Hill in Washington and unrivalled in reporting the nuances of US politics. But when it comes to Europe, the Westminster-White City media bubble is lost.
FreeThoughtManifesto (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
By Gilad Atzmon November 17, 2009 Courtesy Of "Information Clearing House" On Monday the British TV broadcaster, Channel 4 screened Inside Britain’s Israel Lobby , a devastating expose of the Jewish lobby in the UK*. ‘We couldn’t find a conspiracy’ affirmed Peter Oborne the Daily Mail’s political commentator behind the film. He was right. After running the show...
Boulton (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Now I know this is not a new complaint. But the scandal of the near-empty benches in the Commons during the first two days of the debate on the Queen's Speech is worth raising again, for two reasons. First, it comes at a time when MPs are moaning about the new curbs on their expenses and some of them have actually had the brass neck to call publicly for a big pay rise. And second, because the shamefully...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Denis MacShane seems to argue on this blog that because Israel "has the worst press of any UN member state in the British media" the notion that Britain has a powerful and successful Israel lobby is somehow wrong. My esteemed colleague John Rentoul backs him up here.
Balder Blog (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The following is a sarcastic rewrite of an article by the Zionist British MP Denis MacShane. His article is titled 'Global anti-Semitism demands a united response'. Read it before going on if you want to be able to fully appreciate the following humorous parody. [Note: Many of the links in the article below lead to Danish pages; but since most of them are translations from English articles, you will...
John Rentoul (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
You do not need to read much of the long parcel of piffle by Peter Oborne and James Jones about the "pro-Israel lobby in Britain" to know that it is bad. I lit on this paragraph at random: We can reveal that Jeremy Bowen had an article “Israel still bears a disastrous legacy” (31 May 2007) published a week earlier than his BBC piece (4 June 2007) in The Jewish Chronicle containing...
TrueNorth (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Politicus - Why Europe Feels Rejected by Obama - NYTimes.com Now, Denis MacShane, a former British minister for Europe, who met with other Atlanticists at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Edinburgh over the weekend, describes the circumstances this way: “There’s...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Last night’s Channel 4 Dispatches Programme on Jews and their influence in Britain failed to ask or answer one question. (So, too, did the fuller report by James Jones and Peter Oborne). Why, if Jews are held to have such occult lobbying power, are they so spectacularly unsuccessful?
Antony Loewenstein (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Britain’s Channel 4 documentary on the Zionist lobby there faces the inevitable smears from groups that have a lot to hide (and prefer to operate through intimidation): Labor MP Denis MacShane, who chaired the All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Anti-Semitism and is the author of Globalizing Hatred: the New Anti-Semitism, questioned the existence of such a lobby. “If [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
News: Medical records falsified after Holloway prison death Interview: 'A double agent, that's what I was' Comment: Denis MacShane - Tackling the trafficking myths Welcome to the daily news round-up from SocietyGuardian.co.uk **************** Today's top story - Rudd says sorry to Britons forcibly shipped to Australia Australian PM apologises over programme to send youngsters from deprived backgrounds...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
To pretend sex slavery doesn't exist is silly – thankfully, men who pay for sex with a trafficked woman can now be charged In a historic decision , British law has been radically changed. As Beatrix Campbell has highlighted , from now on men, not women, will be obliged to accept responsibility for the abuses of trafficked and coerced women forced to work as prostitutes. It has been a long, slow-burn...
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