Thursday, November 14, 2019

'TheTablet' has been annoying for a long time

In 1849, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Lord Clarendon, later foreign secretary under four prime ministers, denounced The Tablet as "one of the most offensive and virulent newspapers in Europe".

The Tablet had been annoying British politicians since its launch nine years earlier.

Frederick Lucas wrote in his first editorial: "Ireland is governed with fatal disregard of all the plainest rules of justice and prudence"

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