If you live in the New York area and you are fortunate enough to have to travel into work every day on the bus or subway, you might want to pick up a copy of Metro tomorrow and look out for the first in a series of stories about New York blogs written by me.

Each Friday I’ll feature a different blog published in New York. My idea is to mix it up a bit over the next few months and feature a selection of well-known and lesser known blogs. I want them to appeal as much to regular blog readers as to those who are still unsure what a blog is (yes, they do exist). Any suggestions will be gratefully received. Now, on with the show…

How wrong can one person be? I feared there was a chance that Galloway’s entry on Celebrity Big Brother could have been a booster. But if Harry’s Place and others are anything to go by, George has managed to do to himself what no outburst, scandal or opponent has yet achieved—stop the nasty little man’s career in its tracks.

Harry reports that not only has the Socialist Workers Party finally started to criticize Galloway but the British media has finally come out guns blazing. And as Harry laments, for the simple reason that:

You can be a servant for a brutal murderous dictator, you can be pally with dodgy dealers ripping off Iraq’s poor under sanctions, you can strut around the East End stirring up hatred and give your support to death squads in the Middle East.

But never, ever embarass your middle class supporters and media friends by hanging out with ‘chavs’ on Big Brother.

Meanwhile, there’s pretty much universal disgust in the blogosphere. Even from people who used to like him.

But not everyone sees it that way. Writing in the Guardian on Wednesday, Zoe Williams takes a paragraph to say that George is being ridiculed precisely because he has passionate beliefs:

She then goes on to protest that if George had been Boris Johnson no one would have cared! Well, quite.

Williams does raise one interesting issue that will no doubt be a popular theme for weeks to come among some of Galloway’s supporters, namely CBB’s apparent censorship of Galloway. I don’t have access to CBB here in New York, but I assume that rather than the cynical move they believe it to be, the impartial observer would have to guess that the editors reckon no one wants to listen. Amen to that.

In fact, as was pointed out by a blogger earlier this week (whose post I can no longer find, apologies) perhaps there is no better way of spending taxpayers’ money than putting Galloway in the Big Brother house.

My addition would be to pull the other contestants out. And turn the sound off.

Questions for today:
*I have to move a 7ft bookcase and few odds and ends across the city at 8pm. Does anyone know a reliable and inexpensive man with a van? I can try Craigslist, but I would prefer a recommendation.
*Reader Andrea wants to know if there is anywhere in NY you can watch CBB?