Finally, a profile of a man who once said he'd "rather choke on [his] own blood in NI than live on streets paved with gold in a United Ireland". Unfortunately, it does little to interrogate his corrosive influence or why he enjoys such access to power.
Tag: DUP
Bringing back the unionist veto?
In a 1989 essay in the London Review of Books, John Hume wrote that, “the fundamental change that has taken place as a result of the Anglo-Irish Agreement is a change that is deeply and fully understood by every Unionist. What it means is that their exclusive hold on power has gone and is not coming back."