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Fri 07 Jul 2009Moralistic tyranny bedevils our society
Over the last two decades, rage and jealousy have emerged to blight our way of life, writes JOHN WATERS
INVITED TO appear on the last Questions and Answers, with a brief to review the 23 years of Irish life since the programme first aired, I went around last week looking for signs of the deeper human trends that emerged in that period. Most changes are obvious: immigration, the fact that murder reports on the news are more likely to be from Dublin than Belfast, mobile phones and so on.
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