A line from Cicero in the 2023 film 'The Holdovers' piqued my interest over Christmas and I was reminded of the need to continuously reassert certain values in a chaotic world, taking inspiration from the great John Hume's 'single transferable speech'
Eamonn McCann and John Hume "wrecked this country", while imagined green conspiracies are afoot.
In a 1989 essay in the London Review of Books, John Hume wrote that, “the fundamental change that has taken place as a result of the Anglo-Irish Agreement is a change that is deeply and fully understood by every Unionist. What it means is that their exclusive hold on power has gone and is not coming back."
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