![]() ![]() ![]() It hit the headlines in Northern Ireland. Long repeated herself: ‘Simple answer: why are you asking? Do you not know?’īack and forth it went, with sarcasm aplenty from Long, but no effort to answer the question. ‘It’s a simple question, Naomi… what’s a woman?’, her tormentor continued. ‘You don’t know?’, Long replied, clearly buying time. ‘What is a woman, Naomi?’, the tweeter asked. ![]() She got into a Twitterspat last week during which someone hurled that bizarrely incendiary question her way. The latest politician to be stumped by this simplest of queries was Naomi Long, leader of Northern Ireland’s Alliance Party. Try it next time one of them crosses your path. Now it takes a measly four words to reduce a politician to a mumbling wreck. A citizen would really need to know his stuff if he wanted to pin down any of the big dogs of politics. Politicians used to be formidable characters. ![]()
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