The
Patten, the whole Patten, and nothing but the Patten. The Patten proposals
on policing in Northern Ireland have been altered dangerously by Peter Mandelson.
Brendan O'Leary urges him to think again, lest he threaten the who
From IRISH TIMES July 28th, 2000
Mr Ahern and Mr Blair need to step in to supervise Mandelson's mismanagement
and temper his low-grade Machiavellian conduct. There is no substitute for
Patten; it must be the whole Patten. *I have avoided inserting a comma after
"Commons" and added emphasis to avoid this sentence being misleadingly quoted
by Mr Mandelson. Having seen how he recently misled American politicians
through selective quotation such precautions are now a necessary feature
of public dialogue with Mr Mandelson. Brendan O'Leary is professor of political
science at the London School of Economics and a former adviser to Dr Mo
Mowlam; he is also co- author of Policing Northern Ireland, published in
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