Sinn Fein’s super discipline “means they shrink at the head, they rot at the head intellectually…”

This is worth sharing more widely. It’s Henry Patterson talking in a Young Unionist debate about truth recovery. His main point is that Unionists should not back off in talking about the past, or leave the historical narrative in the hands of Sinn Fein. Then he notes the vulnerability of Sinn Fein in these circumstances: You can’t hand these narratives over. One of Sinn Fein’s weakness, although it is seen as its strength by our media class in Northern Ireland, …

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