You’ll never beat the Irish
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Historian Norman Stone in today’s Wall Street Journal on the Irish mouse that roared. He’s in favour.
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That is possibly the worst-written article I’ve ever seen in the WSJ.
To take just a couple of ridiculous statements…
“Thus, over the Yugoslav crisis some 16 years back, which was billed to be “the hour of Europe,” a Mr. Poos appeared from Luxembourg and lectured the Slovenes as to how they had no right to be nationalistic — Luxembourg, beside which Slovenia looks positively elephantine.”
So nobody should have the right to suggest courses of action for China or India, because they’ve got more people?
“…the young have to live with their parents and one sign of this is the used contraceptive in the public parks.”
There were used contraceptives in public parks in Ireland long before contraceptives were legal, never mind property prices sky-high
My favourite, though is:
“The first suggestion of a common European currency came from the deputy secretary general of the Marshall Plan.”
For an historian, he doesn’t really know his history very well. How about the Latin Monetary Union in 1865? Or the Scandinavian Monetary Union in 1873?
My favourite, though is:
“The first suggestion of a common European currency came from the deputy secretary general of the Marshall Plan.”
Really Seriously.
“…the young have to live with their parents and one sign of this is the used contraceptive in the public parks.”
Kicks it ass once a day and twice on sundays.
But were the Latin and Scandinavian not separate currencies just pegged to each other via the price of gold. The way some countries peg their currency to the Dollar. The Euro by having the same coinage and notage in each country is a wee bit different to me anyway.
Yes the illustration is probably the high point. I wasn’t surprised that Stone used the events in Ireland to work in a dig at Cyprus from the Turkish perspective — Google “Norman Stone” and Armenia and it’s quite a collection of stuff. Of course the WSJ is Eurosceptic so of course they lap this stuff up.