After resigning as a visiting professor at City University in March after admitting to supporting IRA terrorists in the 1970s, Roy Greenslade has now popped up again in the institute’s student magazine XCITY. In an interview with budding hacks, published this month, the former Guardian media commentator claims: ‘given that it was more than 20 years since the end of the IRA’s military campaign, it didn’t strike me as being unduly controversial.