>> But for goodness sakes, the age of taking offence is getting ridiculous.
The generality of that and where line is drawn is an interesting debate. Offence at Amber Rudd's 'miss-speak' is a case in point.
Although the armed conflict has stopped The Troubles have not gone away; there are still two camps each isolated from the other. I was on a course on Tuesday about Universal Credit. The trainer regularly visits NI as part of his work and was describing how streets still have to be closed at night and there are many places that are 'no go' areas for one side or the other.
Bloody Sunday and several other events as well as security force collaboration with Loyalist Paramilitaries are still real sores. It took 40 years for the UK government to admit the entirety of what happened on 30th January 1972.
OK, it was presumably a case of 'down the hole and still digging' but that won't wash with Nationalists who will see it as confirmation of the real views of the British government.
Baroness O'Loan is hardly part of the professionally offended cohort; her words ring true.
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