Comments on: Dean Godson’s illustrious past

By: Pickled Politics » What planet is Nick Cohen on?

Pickled Politics » What planet is Nick Cohen on? — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:20:50 +0000

[...] Frankly, anyone who goes near Policy Exchange now is tainted by association, especially given the think-tank’s obvious agenda. Which, shouldn’t be surprising given its director’s illustrious past. [...]

By: michael

michael — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:05:38 +0000

godson is a talented brilliant scholar.He is accurate , honest and a decent person.
The media should be focused on what the wahabis are doing to spread hate in england.that is the issue.
All of the rest is PR spin

By: Yossri

Yossri — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:33:34 +0000

If anyone has ever wondered who would be more appropriate to talk about “community” and “cohesion” none could better disqualify himself from such a responsibility than Dean Godson exemplifying an exact opposite of those terms.

Godson has worked as chief editorial writer at The Telegraph and Special Assistant to Conrad Black. Does this indicate a tendency to be in company of those working with fake receipts?

Lastly, imagine writing a monograph on Islam in Australia: Democratic bipartisanship in action including interviews with prominent players in law enforcement and politics but without interviewing a single Muslim, and launching the monograph thousands of miles away in London with none other than Dean Godson!
http://madhabirfy.blogspot.com/2007/09/middle-eastern-gerard-henderson.html

By: chrisc

chrisc — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:06:13 +0000

A classic response to my classic.

No doubt therefore you can point me to some of your blogging on the topic of Islamic extremism?

By: Garry

Garry — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:14:55 +0000

Thanks Tom. I saw mention of Ray Godson’s book over at Spinwatch. Interesting.

chrisc, a classic response. Thank you.

Astonishingly, I can be concerned about Islamist extremism and the way Dean Godson and Policy Exchange go about their business. Contrary to your implication, the existence of the one doesn’t give a free pass to the other to do whatever they like without scrutiny.

(chrisc’s comment and my response also posted over at mine.)

By: chrisc

chrisc — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:06:32 +0000

Nothing to worry about in those bookshops then…thank goodness for that!

By: Tom Griffin

Tom Griffin — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:52:09 +0000

Another interesting angle is Godson’s family connections. His father Joe was a US Labour attache who helped Hugh Gaitskell plan the expulsion of Aneurin Bevan from the Labour Party in the 1950s.

His elder brother Roy is a pretty central figure in the neo-conservative movement, and the author of a book on covert action which includes a very full discussion of disinformation techniques.