William Scholes

ELEMENTS of Stormont already looked like a poor parody of an episode of Father Ted even before the DUP's in-out executive ministers' hastily constructed their "the money was only resting in my account" salary defence. Like the time Ted and the lads got themselves trapped in the largest lingerie department in Ireland, the DUP now regularly gives the impression of wandering into areas it doesn't quite know how to escape from. Serious political parties tend to lead from the front of the shop, not crouch behind the bra and bloomer stand. Yet that's where you will fi[...]