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Susan-Jane Harrison's avatar

Very well said! People reveal so much by what they use to justify their positions. This is in a way an unmasking of his values more than anything else.

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Tim Gwynn Jones's avatar

Thank you. It's for that very reason I feel like the perpetually wronged but forgiving spouse with Niall F - always taking him back and making excuses for him. It's his values and ideological priorities that look admirable and set in stone but his political choices that are so slippery.

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Susan-Jane Harrison's avatar

We are such inconsistent creatures! Even when we pride ourselves in being aligned.

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Stephen Greenleaf's avatar

Nails the two-Nialls. Or as I’ve labeled him in the past, Good Niall (historian) and Bad Niall (Incompetent commentator). Someone convince him to stick to history, He should stick to times before his birth.

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Tim Gwynn Jones's avatar

He is really good at that.

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Robin Mulvihill's avatar

What a waste of a mind. To be more invested in being thought “edgy” or just plain greedy for the money or the influence are precisely the qualities that now disbar him from being a plausible interpreter of history, let alone the present. In the Starkey-mould, less overt racism.

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Ro's avatar

People who suspected he was a dumbass based on dumb things he’s been saying for years would be correct, then.

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Tim Gwynn Jones's avatar

Not in my opinion.

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Gary Wilson's avatar

I think Niall has changed since he became a born again Christian.

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