Lessons from Chilcott apply to dealing with the past
Why is it when the search is on for instructive examples, that Ireland is seldom looked at by British movers and shakers? Over the behaviour of militantly anti-austerity parties when the focus is on Greece, an alternatively financed health service, the behaviour of coalition governments, what a constitutional convention might achieve, Ireland has a wealth of experience good and bad, to draw on. I suspect the reasons for ignoring Ireland is rooted in a mixture of British guilt and its close …