Yes/No
Mar 9th, 2007 | By admin | Category: IrelandA veteran left wing English Labour MP is said to have expressed the opinion on one occasion that everyone should read the Financial Times, because, he suggested, the rich and the powerful did not tell each other lies. (Well, he didn’t use precisely those words, but that was the gist of it). Maybe their journalists are not as lazy as some who write the headlines on this island.
Take two news stories, firstly, the 1998 referendum on the Good Friday Agreement in the North. The vehement opposition to the agreement …