Not that it matters to Trump one way or the other. We can only hope that after four years of spite, insults and hostilities, he might yet, in a fleeting moment of sanity, ask himself whether going out of his way to annoy or denigrate the continent was worth all the trouble.
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The revelation came in confidential documents released as part of the 1990 State Archives. One document revealed Taoiseach Charles Haughey had directed senior civil servant Dermot Nally to ask the British Ambassador Nicholas Fenn to call to see him on September 20, 1990, over alarm in Dublin at remarks made by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
The Government felt the prime minister’s remarks somehow hinted there was Irish responsibility for what had happened.
Mrs Thatcher had launched a scathing reproach on the “evil” attacks by the IRA on her friend Ian Gow MP as well as retired Air Chief Marshal and former Gibraltar Governor Peter Terry.
John le Carré (1931–2020): Spy novelist and “inside-outside” man
British author and former intelligence agent John le Carré died of pneumonia December 12 aged 89 years. Le Carré leaves behind an intriguing body of literary work set against a background of some of the key political and social developments of the past half-century. In the course of his career, le Carré was able to draw from experiences made during and after the Cold War to attract millions of readers with his carefully researched spy novels.
Born in 1931, David John Moore Cornwell he adopted the name John le Carré as an author in the early 1960s was the son of Ronnie Cornwell, a conman with upper class airs who was permanently in debt due to his criminal business ventures. David Cornwell had a generally miserable childhood. The boy could hardly admit to his well-heeled, upper class fellow students his father was a convicted criminal. At a young age, he already felt himself to be somewhat of an interloper w