Mary Holland
Articles by Mary Holland
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Society
Mr Wilson's Irish question
- 03 July 2006
Taken from the New Statesman archive, 6 December 1974.
Two weeks after the Birmingham pub bombings, Roy Jenkins's Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Bill was passing swiftly through a shocked parliament. Holland's qualms about the legislation have considerable resonance today, and many of the "draconian" measures involved, far from being temporary, remain in force.
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