Just wild about Harry

Anthony Julius gets it about right, in my view:

He is a silly boy, but it's grotesque the attention that has been given to this. It's important to keep a sense of proportion. It's rather mean to have on the front page - you would think he'd signed up to the neo-Nazi party. He's just a kid.
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The wearing of a Nazi uniform at a party is unattractive. I would not be thrilled if I was at a party and saw it. The connotations are still fresh and alive for some people.

My friend Eve Garrard emails:

The fuss about stupid Harry is factitious; it's whipped up by the media who will do well out of whipping it up. This raises a genuinely interesting issue, examples of which I now see all over the place, namely the media telling us in the gravest tones that a particular issue won't go away, when the reason it won't go away is that the media are flogging it for all it's worth.