Professor Paul Dixon is an Honorary Visiting Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London and author of Performing the Northern Ireland Peace Process: In Defence of Politics (Palgrave 2018).
In some situations, the end does justify the means. In these anti-political times isn't it useful to remember the positive role political actors can play in making the world a better place?
Jo Cox MP was the embodiment of humanitarianism, but does that make her politics - specifically her stance on intervention in Syria - beyond criticism?