An interesting addition to the ranks of [high profile] bloggers.. Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point: How Little Things Make a Big Difference and Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking explains why, despite saying that he would never have the time to maintain a blog, he’s changed his mind – Mea Culpa
World by Storm has a nice piece up on the IRA’s role in helping MK, the armed wing of the ANC, in the 1980s. In particular he sees a strange alchemy at work there: …if one can think of a clearly legitimate contemporary struggle it was that against apartheid and it is to the credit [...] read our review »
Coming up to the Halloween holiday, some people might be frightened of the idea of Voices from the Grave – but for others, the chance to hear an oral history of the Troubles from the mouths of two (in)famous protagonists, PUP leader and former UVF member David Ervine, and Brendan “The Dark” Hughes, is not [...] read our review »