Top Six - August 11

So what’s hot, and what’s not, in the past week’s blogging? Here are the six most popular posts on Zelo Street for the past seven days, counting down in reverse order, because, well, I have mission clear-up to do later. So there.

6 Dispatches Presenter Suckered By Pack Of Lies Liam Halligan claimed his Dispatches hit job on the HS2 project was all about reliable, evidence based journalism. His endorsement of an article packed with falsehood shows otherwise.

5 Brexit - Time To Stop The Idiocy The gaslighting of an entire country into accepting the disaster of a No Deal Brexit has to stop. And it has to stop now.

4 Anti-Semitism - A Warning From History The demonising of the Labour Party as some kind of racist enterprise, while ignoring the clear and worrying rise of the far right, is frighteningly naive. We know where this leads. Because it has happened before.

3 Who Sent Tommy Robinson To My House? However the personal details that allowed Stephen Yaxley Lennon to find my house were obtained, it wasn’t done legally.

2 Isabel Oakeshott - Fishing For A Libel Case? The mercenary hack and Brexit Party booster appeared to be on a hair trigger at accusations that that party was racist.

1 CST Has Smeared Innocent Activists The Community Security Trust dubbed 36 Twitter accounts an “engine of hate”, and linked them to allegations of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. But 24 of them were not. No apology or retraction yet. No surprise there.

And that’s the end of another blogtastic week, blog pickers. Not ‘arf!