Wanted -- widely-read left-wing political blog
Although it has been the case for many months, it still greatly upset me to here this from Harry, of Harry's Place, who said his blog is now:"primarily concerned with a left critique of the anti-war movement"
It's sad because there aren't many well-read and interesting left-wing political blogs (there are obviously lots of good blogs with a left-wing stance, e.g. look in the sidebar links) and Harry's Place was definitely one of the best.
Does it matter? Well although blogs are essentially irrelevant to the political process, so are niche magazines, and I enjoy them. So with an election in the next two years I think it would have been good to have somewhere to discuss and debate Labour's broad policies. Harry's Place remains a great site, but now one dedicated to attacks on a small and to the vast majority of the nation, irrelevant, faction of the left.
The one uplifting thing is of course that the same vast majority of the population, if they thought of George Galloway at all (could 5% of Briton's even name him?), had little but contempt for the man, so we can at least be pleased that elements of the soft-hard-left are coming around to our way of thinking.
In the meantime I need a non-specialist left-wing politics blog -- a UK Calpundit. Any ideas?
Thatcher Week Update: The UK history channel is from tonight having a week of Margaret Thatcher programmes. These will be the usual archive cut & paste, but some might be worth watching, especially if you still regret the passing of the Rock 'n' Roll years.
posted by Matthew @ 5/03/2004 08:12:00 PM
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