Agreeing with Tom Harris, again.

TB was contacted by a journo this morning inquiring about whether he knew the identity of the Scottish blog

A Leaky Chanter

. The Times ran a bit of a

non-story

about it today, claiming it was Scotland's answer to the Red-Rag smears. Only one problem. The Leaky Chanter doesn't make up stuff about the private lives of the SNP members and their families. Instead it is a legitimate, although brutal, attack blog. Tom Harris has come in for some criticism for linking to the site and he comes out fighting:

"An “attack blog” is a completely different animal from the kind of smear blog that McBride and Draper were planning to set up. By all means attack your opponents’ policies, but when you attack our families, or invent stuff to attack, you’ve crossed the line. And you’ve exposed yourself for having nothing of substance to attack on. And that means you’ve lost the argument, and deservedly so."

Hear hear.