That’s the charge levelled at the Irish government by Sinn Fein president, Gerry Adams. He went on to resist the (increasing popular) formula that the only substantial block on progress is the mere existence of the IRA. He went on to ask, “What about policing? Demilitarisation? Human rights and Equality? The political institutions?”
This reads as if a mad picaresque tale. Myers as first a reporter for RTÉ and then as a freelance journalist with no real experience, finds himself wandering into savagery as he hastens north as the Troubles explode. A soldier dies next to him; he witnesses an IRA ambush; he sees children shot to death [...] read our review »
Writer Christopher Hitchens has died aged 62. He was as contrary as he was brilliant. Here is a brief In Memoriam from Vanity Fair (his outlet of choice since 1992) and, here, a longer tribute from his friend Christopher Buckley Stanley in The New Yorker. Better, perhaps, though to post one of Hitchens’ own writings in [...] read our review »