There was a joke in 1997. What’s the difference between the Stickies and the Provos? Answer: 25 years. It was a reference to the Official IRA ceasefire in 1972 and the IRA ceasefire in 1997. Unfortunately, just like matter and anti-matter, everything here has its destructive counterpart. What’s the difference between unionists in the 1960s and today? Answer: none. Bigoted, benighted, backward, blind to any prospect of a new beginning, they can’t see the wood for the trees. In the 1960s, after the IRA border campaign collapsed, its Marxist leadership settled on [...]