Why the rise of Trump is a global issue
It is truly an irony that many sophisticated European liberals now look back at the presidencies of Ronald Reagan and George H Bush Senior as periods when the western world’s fate lay in safe hands. But the continuing degradation of rational politics in the US by the modern Republican party is creating a nostalgia even for figures whose […]
The peace process must now largely be seen as military capitulation disguised as a political transformation
In an intriguing recent radio discussion on BBC last week, John Ware, presenter of a Panorama programme on Stakeknife and Kieran Conway, a self-described former Provo intelligence officer and author of “Southside Provo”, discussed the significance of the now accepted belief that Fred Scappaticci was simultaneously a British spy and the IRA’s chief counter-intelligence interrogator, torturer, and executioner in respect of persons suspected of being lower level informants within the IRA.