It was instructive to read some of the press articles about how Tony Blair was going to face a grilling at the hands of that Westminster committee looking into those on-the-run letters. He’d pleaded Middle East business, he’d rung up old pals and asked if he really really had to appear, but long runs the […]
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On empathy and schadenfreude
Normally when I meet cases of distress or frustration I feel sympathy. Rabbits in snares, birds with broken wing, Orange marchers who want to get home. But today I see a case of frustration which I’m afraid brings out the old schadenfreude in me. It seems David Cameron and his NI Secretary Theresa Villiers have barred […]