Bright's Blog

13 comments from readers

raggedyman
15 August 2008 at 21:17

It's a double-act. AG does the smear; MB does the sneer.

Keep it up Bright; Veronica might offer you a job yet.

From what I hear you may need it.

Riaz Ahmad
16 August 2008 at 00:41

Well, the treatment red Ken is getting is chicken feed compared with Mr. TB. For taking UK in to war based on spin and lies, he has been rewarded with directorships of US companies with renumeration measuring in to milions. How about that Mr. Bright, one second thought your article does not make you look quite what your name suggests.

Martin Bright
16 August 2008 at 11:11

Please address the substance of the article or your comments will be removed

swatantra nandanwar
16 August 2008 at 15:28

Thanks to the antics of Bright and Gilligan, we've now got a Tory buffoon running London. I think we deserve an apology from both. I am watching the Olympics; the Chinese are putting on a great show inside the stadiums. It was unfair for the media to concentrate on the HR issue. that could have been put on hold after the Olympics. One bit I definitely will not be watching and that is when the Chinese pass on the Torch to Johnson at the closing ceremony; I could do without those 2 mins to spoil my enjoyment.. Ken and Coe, have everyright to be there. Johnson and the Tories have been whinging about the Olympics and 2012 will be done on the cheap to the disgrace of London.

raggedyman
17 August 2008 at 01:15

Gilligan seemed a little piqued the other day when accusations of 'hatchet-job' and 'monomaniacal manhunt' thickened the air - but said AG feebly I would do the same if Boris were Mayor. So can we expect a six year long sustained character assassination of that fluffy old bumbling buffoon? Well, um, maybe. Soon, perhaps.

Since then the Ray Lewis affair seems to have completely evaded the famous AG investigative journalism technique whilst poor old Livingstone continues to look for a stone to hide under. Not even in the fires of perdition, Ken, can you hide from the wrath of andy.

For Bright perhaps Ken's unforgivable association with Islamic groups of the outspoken type, nowadays known as extremists/terrorists, is the nub of it. This is the taming of Islam and the thwarting of the clerisy of fanaticism who want to get their hands on our vitals.

Understandably Bright is terrified.

BegbiesEvilTwin
17 August 2008 at 02:10

When Livingstone was a public official he deserved intense scrutiny just like anyone else in those types of positions.

Now he's out of office. Unless he's suspected of doing something seriously criminal or significant it doesn't have any currency for a national journal. Till then it's best to leave this sort of thing to the London news media.

redharry
18 August 2008 at 13:05

Recipient of an arms-dealer funded BICOM junket to Israel calls kettle black.

The sooner the New Statesman finds a decent political editor for 2008 the better.

Martin Bright
18 August 2008 at 14:02

Oh red, you are so wise, so brave and so anonymous

Jonny Mac
18 August 2008 at 16:47

swatantra - "It was unfair for the media to concentrate on the HR issue." Yes, poor little CCCP, with those nasty journalists daring to have the temerity to point out that the Chinese Government tortures and kills. Jeez. How anyone who claims to be on the left - as I assume you do, swat - can dismiss the grotesque, hugely wide-ranging human rights abuses of the Beijing Government is - well, no, it's not beyond me, actually, after all I've read Nick Cohen's book. [cue torrents of abuse from the Cohen-haters that always only go to prove his point]

explodingbadger
20 August 2008 at 05:55

China may have a bad human rights record. But it hasn't been invading countries recently unlike the united kingdom.

redharry
20 August 2008 at 13:12

Nor does it torture and kill as many as the US/UK alliance.

I've also read Nick Cohen's book - it's crap.

raggedyman
26 August 2008 at 00:22

redharry:

You could expand on that and say it's 'crappy'.

knave
28 August 2008 at 13:12

“swatantra - "It was unfair for the media to concentrate on the HR issue." Yes, poor little CCCP, with those nasty journalists daring to have the temerity to point out that the Chinese Government tortures and kills.”

A bad guys when attacking western regimes human rights abuse. To me they are the ones lacking the hypocrisy not right wing journos such as Cohen , Bright and O’Keefe. For instance what about the human rights abuse in Columbia and Afghanistan. More people have been killed in human rights abuses by the Hilltop battalions in Columbia than China and 60 children murdered at a wedding. Not mentioned by our brave journos, only help in the spin.

“Jeez. How anyone who claims to be on the left - as I assume you do, swat - can dismiss the grotesque, hugely wide-ranging human rights abuses of the Beijing Government is - well, no, it's not beyond me, actually, after all I've read Nick Cohen's book. [cue torrents of abuse from the Cohen-haters that always only go to prove his point]”

Cohen doesn’t mention the biggest trading partner and political backer to China in his neo con and social conservative guide book. Bush’s US. Funny that eh. Doesn’t fit into the his black and white view of the world Johnny