Quotes that might come back to haunt them…
“There is a history of involvement in the British army on the Falls Road”: Sinn Fein’s Tom Hartley, at Belfast’s (unofficial) Somme memorial ceremony.
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The lost art of reading (or drowning in too much information)…
Here’s a great review of a fascinating book (H/T reader Rory) on how the Internet is destroying our capacity for intelligent, focused and critical thought. It opens thus: …here is the news that Ulin brings in this slim, meandering book: that reading is “an act of contemplation”; that such an act becomes more difficult in [...] read our review »
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Help me with the West Wing: Essential viewing or Party Political Broadcast?
Having somehow managed to avoid watching a single episode of the widely praised West Wing TV series I was delighted to discover the entire Box set in my Christmas stocking – and with enough spare time over the holidays to give it a good lash. But with 10 episodes of the first series under my [...] read our review »
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The ANC, the IRA and the rise of influence of the left within Sinn Fein…
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 »
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He’s right, but weren’t many of those (millions) in WW1 conscripts who died in a war they barely understood?
Do we honestly believe that if Britain hadn’t gone to war with Germany that Ireland would have been excluded from a Nazi invasion?
All the dead of those two wars should be respected by all in theses isles.
yes, tom’s quite right; i mean just look at the number of his provo colleagues and comrades who were working for british army intelligence!
Maybe he’s trying to tell us something…
Why will it “come back to haunt” him Pete? Anyone can make a quote look silly by lifting it out of context . Big deal.
Gum,
Belfast Gonzo is not Pete! Gonzo is more of a ‘steve’ ….
Haha, oh dear. Apologies to Pete. Will teach me to read who made the post. Although, lack of astroids aside, it’s definately the sort of topic that Pete would make an issue of…