Nick Cohen - Censorship is at its most effective when no one admits it exists

Nick Cohen wrote in The Spectator here:

"Censorship is at its most effective when no one admits it exists."

He continued: "The first step to freeing yourself from oppressive power is to find the courage to admit that you are afraid. The more people confess to being afraid, the less reason there is to fear and the easier it is to isolate repressive forces."

People in Northern Ireland have long been bullied, menaced, threatened, terrified and intimidated by hostile, hysterical and sinister gangs and sweaty politicians, and by extension have opted-out and silenced themselves from the process. This needs to end.