Boris Johnson has double standards on the IRA
on historic admissions
Roy Greenslade, the former editor of the Daily Mirror and a journalism ethics professor, revealed he was a silent supporter of the Provisional IRA in an “unrepentant admission” featured in the British Journalism Review this week, writes David Aaronovitch in The Times. “Yet,” says Aaronovitch, “such is the character of the prime minister that I couldn’t help wondering whether, had Greenslade become an enthusiastic Brexiteer late in his career, he might have avoided the condemnation and won instead a seat in the House of Lords.” That’s what happened last summer when Claire Fox, formerly of the Irish Freedom Movement, became Baroness Fox. “So IRA-supporting Greenslade is to be condemned but the even more IRA-supporting Fox is to be ennobled. And why?” asks Aaronovitch. “It’s simple: Johnson doesn’t care and he and his coterie don’t think you care either.”