While your local newspaper probably wasn’t reporting it, the power-sharing arrangement that looked for a while as if it might actually end the troubles in Northern Island seems to be circling the drain. Kieran Healy explains:
All in all, it seems the art of constitutional politics is just not attractive enough to SF to make it give up its other main hobby, viz, being the friendly front-end of a highly professional terrorist organization.
[Note: SF is Sinn Fein, the IRA’s tame political party.]
For some reason, no one has figured out the obvious five-step solution:
1. Put Gerry Adams and Ian Paisley together in a locked room with a pair of daggers.
2. Wait half an hour.
3. Open the door.
4. Shoot the survivor.
5. Repeat as needed with similar pairs.
UPDATE
One reader asked if the proposed use of daggers reflected a bias on my part toward gun control.
Not at all; but it seems only just that those two gangsters suffer before they die.