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It is almost unheard of for retired Marine Corps general officers to criticize the policies of the sitting commandant, but three have recently done so.

Brian Feeney Anyone reading yesterday’s British government command paper, ‘Addressing the Legacy of NI’s Past’, should be warned to keep a suitable receptacle nearby to contain the disgusting product of the nausea this exercise in hypocrisy, doublethink and colonial condescension will induce. Orwell’s definition of doublethink, among other deplorable aspects, is the ability to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancel each other out, knowing them to be contradictory yet apparently believing in both of them. The outstanding example in the paper is the belief, repeated by the proc...

The political news of three Sundays ago was overwhelmingly about same-sex marriage, and no wonder. Finally, after almost two-dozen failed attempts, the senate had voted for its legalisation. The next day, debate was to begin in the house. Expectations were high. But in all the excitement about marriage equality, another political milestone went unremarked. It also was the 10th anniversary of the fall of John Howard’s government. On December  3, 2007, Australia’s second-longest-serving prime minister was replaced by Kevin Rudd, having lost the election and his seat. It was under Howard, o...

British prime minister Boris Johnson and his Tory government are infuriating the public with their miserly proposal of a one per cent pay rise for nurses and other...

Article bookmarked Don't show me this message again✕ Article bookmarked Don't show me this message again✕ Richard Drax MP (left) and Jacob Rees-Mogg eat an ice cream in Weymouth earlier this year (Getty) While our country hovers on the edge of a historic break with Europe, my attention was caught by what, at first sight, seemed a rather less significant issue: the Tory MP who has inherited a sugar estate in Barbados and is being asked to pay reparations for his ancestors’ treatment of slaves. But the issues are far from trivial and also go beyond the demands of the Black Lives Matter c...