Remember our Comrade Danish MP Villy Søvndal? The one with the spine?

Well — here he is again, this time giving it some welly to the clerical fascists of Hizb ut-Tahrir and all those who would give ‘religious representatives’ preferential treatment, or put them in ‘a position where they were thought to represent the views of ordinary immigrants.’

Here’s his blog here.

That’s it — I’m emailing him with an invite to blog here. Hope his English is up to scratch. Fuck it — we can always get Dr Sedgey to translate if not.

Sombrero aloft to Flea for the link to the The Copenhagen Post story.

Hitchens on the enduring contradictions of antisemitism.

A fine piece indeed.

Re the Hitch essay on antisemitism linked to — something he mentions here:

“Rezzori’s character insinuates with the greatest of subtlety that there is something feminine about the Jew, and that this is what sets him apart from the manly and robust and patriotic characters who like to roar cheery songs rather than listen to the tinkling piano, and whose chief joy is the hunt;”

got me to thinking about the well known antisemite George Galloway and his contempt for Tibetans and Buddhism — which he describes as ‘obscurantist’. Why is Buddhism any more obscurantist than any other religion, particularly his own choice of shit? It may stem from his lack of interest in Tibetan pussy … and an arrogant feeling that Buddhism, like Judaism is ‘effeminate’ or ‘feminine’, not strong and masculine like Catholicism/Xtianity and Islam where they know how to keep the bitches in check real fucking good. Just a thought… . Consider also, Galloway’s need to assure us of his virility and masculinity — repeated reminders that he has had multiple sexual partners — and his apparent disregard for ‘uppity’ women and his opposition to women’s rights to biological autonomy.

The litigious antisemitic scumbag.

Monday’s Dispatches, How the Banks Bet Your Money and Lost, on Channel 4 was a masterfully edited (OK, by my film making nephew) documentary that clearly explained the credit crunch, Northern Rock and other dodgy aspects of finance for a lay audience. For once, it concentrated on the main losers. No, not listeners to Radio 4’s Money Box, but poor, working class Americans who have lost their homes and neighbourhoods.

Watching it, it struck me that, in this case, Adam Smith’s famous aphorism should read,

… he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which dumps millions of other people in the shit whilst he keeps the million pound bonuses he is paid for creating the whole fucking mess.