3:19pm
There's a post at Harry's Place by a rep from Demos. It's very revealing. The writer clearly thinks he is being persuasive, but it's actually chilling. Here's his last paragraph:
We need to take the values we, and so many Muslims and non-Muslims, share as liberals and wage a battle against those values that make us deeply uncomfortable. If ours are as resilient as we hold them to be, then they will prevail.
I'm not sure I've ever read a more terrifying sentence from a mainstream think tank. Demos, remember, claims to be about 'everyday democracy'. And yet the best thing the writer can muster is a hope that our values are resilient.
Does he doubt they are? I'm not surprised, since Demos itself is happy to work in tandem with genocidal theocrats.
The writer seems utterly...
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10:12pm
I've always thought Demos was a wonderful joke, and assumed it was a Chris Morris style skit, this time on think tanks. My favourite was the biography of one of its former staffers, Helen Wilkinson, which described her as being renowned for surfing the zeitgeist.
As satire goes, that is surely unimproveable.
But it seems I was wrong about Demos. There's nothing amusing at all about it. As
Harry's Place points out:
Demos sponsored and participated in a
debate at IslamExpo and a
seminar on “Political Islam”. That’s right: a left of centre think tank worked with a clerical fascist party to organise a conference about its racist, genocidal theocratic political programme.
Demos says this about itself on its site:
Demos is the think tank for 'everyday democracy'. Our aim is to put this idea into practice by working with organisations in ways that make them more effective and legitimate.
Quite how working with an organisation dedicated to genocide and theocracy fits with that outline, I have no idea.
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9:33pm
I've not set foot in an M&S for months. I went in to a Simply Food today and now have some idea why it's in such trouble.
This woman:
If only it was simply food. The shop is more of a gallery of Mylene Klass pictures than a retail outlet for food. It is impossible to walk for more than a few paces without being confronted by another picture of her. As I was waiting at the checkout, I counted. Without moving my head, I could see - had to see, in fact - nine pictures of her. If I moved my head there were many, many more.
Ms Klass is one of the most annoying people in the public eye. She appears to be almost entirely talentless but to consider that an ability to play Richard Clayderman-esque arpeggios on the...
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11:41am
One of two things has happened this morning. Either I have turned into a nutter; or George Monbiot is right.
I am troubled, you see. I've read a piece of his and agree with every word. I am pretty confident, however, that it's the latter of the two possibilities.
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10:00am
My post last week on MPACUK, which lied about its sponsorship from the Journalism Diversity Fund, has prompted a post by the extremist liars themselves. Many of the extremist Muslims are, whatever one might think of their views, clever. The great thing about MPACUK is that they are - as their claim to be sponsored by the JDF shows - really very stupid.
Here's some of their response:
Stephen Pollard is a Zionist and Islamophobe, a commentator, loved by right-wing, anti-Muslim hate sites, and he watches MPACUK like a hawk. So much so that when we put an advert up on our site from the ‘journalism diversity fund’ he had to change his nappy, he got so excited!
His shocking discovery... that the words ‘our sponsors’ was above the advert in tiny words. We normally put paid adverts in this section but
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