But that argument only goes so far, because since the Good Friday Agreement former paramilitary leaders have come into the heart of government. Martin McGuinness – who admitted to being an IRA commander in Londonderry on the day of Bloody Sunday – also stonewalled many of the questions he was asked in front of Lord Saville. Other former members of the IRA were shown to have been manicuring the evidence of witnesses and (as I show in my book on these events) arguably manipulated the whole process for their own purposes. If Soldier J and others are to be questioned over what they didn’t admit in front of Lord Saville, can we at least expect Martin McGuinness to be hauled in to answer for the same? Should we not expect at least as high a standard of truth from the currently serving Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland as we would from a retired Lance-Corporal in the British Army?