Northern Ireland: Conservatives confront conservatives
Standing back from the conflict: one of the most Conservative governments in Europe is facing one of the most conservative opposition moments. There is a strong degree of fundamentalism in the Republican movement which is utterly detached from modern left wing thinking and re-thinking. The issue really, given these poles, is how can the left inject some different thinking into the situation? The question is: what should the left advocate? The problem is similar, in a way, to the problem faced in the British Labour Party: either side with Traditionalists who seem to exist in a time warp and...