“Radio silence was imposed.”

Nick Cohen writing in the New Statesman reports that the BBC editors would not publish stories about the takeover of the leadership of the anti-war movement by the Socialist Workers Party, nor about the at first sight rather suprising alliance between the SWP and the Muslim Association of Britain.

Two interesting points:

– the story was leaked to Nick Cohen by disgruntled BBC reporters.

– Harry’s Place, a left-wing pro-Iraq-liberation website familiar to regular readers here is mentioned in the story.

Kudos to The New Statesman for reporting something so uncongenial to their editorial line.

Instapundit has picked up the story and comments further.