Posted By: September 14, 2016
Deborah McAleese. Belfast Telegraph. Wednesday, September 14, 2016 Director of Public Prosecutions [DPP] Barra McGrory has warned that if the alleged activities of Freddie Scappaticci are proved they will open up “an appalling vista of collusion by the state.”The PSNI launched an investigation into claims of security force collusion in at least 24 murders connected to the activities of Scappaticci, the alleged […]
Posted By: September 12, 2016
For more than 100 years, Britain has been perpetually at war. Some conflicts, such as the Falklands, have become central to our national narrative, but others, including the brutal suppression of rebels in Oman, have been deliberately hiddenby Ian Cobain. The Guardian.Thursday, September 8, 2016In the months after the surrender of Japan on 14 August 1945, the British people were ready to believe that war was […]
Posted By: September 12, 2016
Alex Massie. The Spectator. Sunday, September 11, 2016Unlike the boss, I thought Liam Fox’s comments on fat and lazy British businesses that could be exporting more but aren’t because, well, an afternoon on the golf course is more comfortable than striving for Britain were deplorable. But they were also telling.Because they were a further confirmation that the United Kingdom now has a nationalist government. The liberal Toryism of […]
Posted By: September 12, 2016
This Editorial in today’s Irish News of Belfast further points out the apparently endless implications of Brexit. And further reveals that English leaders themselves do not even know what they have wrought in their right-wing surge of English nationalism— and in their “to hell with the consequence “-attitude for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.It is […]
Posted By: September 11, 2016
A new Irish Times series explores Ireland’s relationship with its bigger, more powerful neighbor, our changing levels of enmity and amity and the small – yet vast – differences that define the two countriesFintan O’Toole. Irish Times. Saturday, September 10, 2016,One of the big underlying stories of Ireland in the past 20 years is the strange death of Anglophobia. The one phrase most […]