Harry's Blunt Hatchet. posted by Richard Seymour

I linked to Bat's article on Galloway's libel victory yesterday, and I note that Harry's Place have posted a very feeble article insinuating that Bat is a fantasist, must be making it all up, couldn't have written for the Telegraph. Even the increasingly pitiful Oliver Kamm showed up to dispense an inept insult.

I won't waste time making fun of the author's sorry attempts at adumbrating SWP thought on the relationship between class and ideology, but I will point out two things:

1) The Bat did work for the Telegraph.

2) HP Sauce raises a furry eyebrow at the claim that Telegraph journos were angry about the war and also in agitating against the management:

"But Torygraph hacks nodding their heads sympathetically to a junior Trot's take on world politics? Hmmm."

Well, look. The struggle for union recognition alluded to by Bat is a simple matter of record. Rising militancy among the journalists there has been extensively reported It is also a matter of record that they won recognition and have been a pain in the managerial arse ever since.

How do those brave liberal warriors for truth, justice and the American way miss out on such widely reported facts? You know the answer to that.