Why a bloody dictator like Castro gets to the soft side of our brains

Maybe it’s just because, in some irrational way, the Holocaust just feels worse than the Cultural Revolution or Stalin’s purges.

Killing a race disturbs us in a way killing a class does not. In strict terms of lives lost, though, the victims of communism easily outnumber the victims of Nazism

I NEVER thought I would begin a column with the words “in fairness to Gerry Adams”, but the Sinn Féin leader was rather restrained in response to news of Fidel Castro’s resignation.