When I was a young man I rarely went out for a pint. Or two. If I went out drinking with my equally scurrilous friends, we had one ambition: to get pleasantly tanked. The amount of wise things we said then, the occasional scuffles we engaged in, were part of learning to be adult. Meanwhile, to […]
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How to discredit someone who criticises (that’s you, Gerry Adams)
As the world and its big sister know by now, Gerry Adams was refused entry to the White House over St Patrick’s Day. He waited for over an hour to see if whatever impediment was blocking him could be removed, then left when it wasn’t. He later said he considered his being barred unacceptable and that […]