Whither the DUP? On the face of it that party should now be some way down the road which the UUP has almost completed: the road to oblivion. There are a number of reasons why this should be so. There’s the fact that the DUP is out of step with the wishes of the majority […]
December, 2019
CRIME, PUNISHMENT – AND IMPUNITY? by Donal Kennedy
A man was recently charged in Germany with complicity in murder when a guard in a Concentration Camp in 1943. He is over 90 years old now and probably no longer a threat to anybody. But if there is sufficient evidence to try him, I believe he should have his day in court. If found […]
Getting away with murder
Crime and punishment are in the news these days, but at the same time a central question about crime and punishment is being ignored. Let’s first concentrate on the part that’s out in the open. Jeremy Corbyn found himself in the position where he had to say that the London police took appropriate action when […]