The Irish Times has a front page report [no subs req] on the Eames/Bradley group’s 4 days of meetings in London with Lord Stevens who, as the Irish Times states, “carried out costly and detailed examinations into allegations of British army and RUC collusion with loyalist paramilitaries”. Rumours of a similar series of meetings with others have yet to be confirmed.. but if they are to take the bull by the horns..
The oft-quoted verse from the book of Proverbs, ‘where there is no vision, the people perish,’ (chapter 29, verse 18) opens a new book by Gerry O’Hanlon, A New Vision for the Catholic Church: A View from Ireland (Columba Press, 2011). That verse could be considered an apt summary of the current state of the [...] read our review »
A moment of some significance in journalism perhaps, as the New York Times reviews the current talked about book, The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy, and the Way Out of Afghanistan by Bing West. The author is no bleeding heart but a former assistant Defense Secretary from the Reagan era who stomped his way round the Afghan [...] read our review »