Niccolo Machiavelli

Calumnies sting without disabling; and those stung are moved by hatred of their detractors

Mick Fealty on October 28, 2014, 4:39 pm

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“Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me.” Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People It’s taken two weeks for a mainstream journalist to commit to print some kind of defence of Sinn Fein and raise questions about Mairia Cahill’s credibility. Roy Greenslade has interesting views on the matter, not least because he breaks the news that… …the programme itself is now under fire. It is claimed that the makers failed to take account of the …

Alliance and Anna Lo: if you are explaining, you are losing

Turgon on March 22, 2014, 4:41 pm

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Political party conferences and the run up to them prior to an election always seek to promote the party’s candidates. This year’s Alliance conference and its lead up has, however, gone less than wholly according to plan. Anna Lo’s revelation that she would support a united Ireland in the longer term has been a major story as have her comments likening the situation here to one of colonialism. There are of course explanations for these comments especially Lo’s support for …

Libya begins a long walk to an uncertain destination

Mick Fealty on August 24, 2011, 3:58 pm

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It is easy to forget that despite its sprawling landmass, the population of Libya is not much different from that of the island of Ireland, or Scotland. Ninety percent of the people live in less than 10% of the area of the country and the majority of those live in just two cities. Much of the rest is desert, including much of the landscape between the two main cities, Benghazi and Tripoli. So protecting the people of Benghazi by air offensive …