It defines itself as a staunch opponent of religious and political censorship of all kinds and was supportive of the 2006 London March for Free Expression.
To a lesser extent, the blog has also challenged left wing academics critical of Israel such as Norman Finkelstein, Noam Chomsky, the Ze'ev Jabotinskyite Israeli right winger, Gilad Atzmon, and Shlomo Sand.
The 11 September 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center served as a "wake up call" according to Harry, prompting him to try to better understand what political forces led up to it.
In 2002, he began blogging as a way to clarify his own thoughts on political issues such as the impending war in Iraq, moving away from his Communism to embrace a more moderate social-democratic worldview.
He made a public break with his former views in a Workers' Liberty message board discussion in October 2002, where he said Stalinism was a viewpoint "I now reject totally".
[11] The site had reported that a member of the university and college union's discussion list named Jenna Delich had posted links to American white nationalist David Duke's website to support the call for a boycott on Israel.
[12][13] The DNS service was pulled when Delich's supporters from the pro-Palestinian UCU caucus threatened a libel lawsuit against HP for publishing her info and a picture of her (the information remained in place, while the photo was deleted the day after it was posted).
In November 2023, Harry’s Place accused Marieha Hussain, a pro-Palestinian protester holding a placard with the faces of then Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak and Home Secretary Suella Braverman, on coconuts, of being a 'racist' in a post that had been viewed 4 million times on X, as of September 2024.
On 13 September 2024, she was acquitted of the charge; the prosecution was unable to offer any racism experts to counter the defence as the three they contacted refused to assist.