Patrick Radden Keefe's book Say Nothing, a history of The Troubles in Northern Ireland, is heavy in a few ways. On top of its subject matter, it's more than 500 pages long — though a quarter of that ...
Ex-detective inspector William Matchett stressed that it was the PIRA which had been the main "aggressor" in the conflict, not the UK government. He also said that IRA decommissioning had only come ...