It takes just a small group of hotheads to stir up trouble ... Brexit by itself had shaken the establishment ... the Tories risk escalation by NI Protocol expectations ... where are the powers to prevent violence? Often a status quo offers best chance to maintain peace. I understand in NI a truce or ceasefire is a better description of the Good Friday Agreement. Old adage, united we stand, divided we fall.

 
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How very little changed during nearly three decades of violence at the cost of more than 3,500 lives is described in Agents of influence, subtitled Britain's Secret Intelligence War Against the IRA, by Aaron Edwards, a lecturer at Sandhurst military academy.

'Sapere aude'