A famous joke concerning whataboutery goes like this: When the Russians inaugurated their Moscow metro in 1935, they invited all the foreign correspondents. They were impressed by the high ceilings ...

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I have heard this term a lot, most recently when I joined a heated BBC Radio debate on India: whataboutery. This term does not refer to protesting inconsistencies by making a reasoned argument that ...

If you follow Northern Irish politics, you know about “Whataboutery”. It’s an infamous argumentative manoeuvre deployed by people on all teams. If someone puts forth an issue which makes one side of ...

Alex Kane is an Irish News columnist and political commentator and a former director of communications for the Ulster Unionist Party. LAST Friday morning, in reply to a tweeted photograph of the ...

Israel’s recent military response to Palestinian riots at its Gaza border have captured the world’s attention— with the media running daily updates and analyses, and passing judgement on both nation’s ...

When the spectre of sectarianism barged its way back onto the agenda this week, it was a safe bet its ugly wee pal would come bounding after it. 'Whataboutery' is one of those phrases that's ...

The much-awaited Supreme Court ruling on Sabarimala merely refers it to a bigger bench; it does not strike down the entry of women into the temple that the court had sanctioned last year. The Brahmin ...