Amnesty loses the run of itself by smearing Bush with Stalin’s brush

CAFÉ MAO is the name of not one, but two, restaurants in Dublin. This column does not review restaurants, however, and I will confine my comments to the strange choice of name.

Amnesty loses the run of itself by smearing Bush with Stalin’s brush

Would you name a restaurant after Hitler or Stalin and, if you did, would people think it acceptable? Probably not.

So how is it OK to invoke the leader of the Chinese communist revolution, the man who killed many more people than Hitler and Stalin combined?

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